Marty Baron
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Show me your innovation.
And I don't see much happening.
So I do believe it needs to be a sustainable business.
Of course, Bezos can afford it.
I mean, he's worth $250, $260 billion at this point.
He was worth about $25 billion, a mere $25 billion when he bought Post in 2013.
And yeah, he could afford to subsidize it forever.
But I think it's a good idea for it to be a sustainable business.
And I think they should work with that.
Yeah, the Post didn't really contribute to that multiplier effect, but to the extent that it subtracted from it, it wasn't by very much.
Well, first of all, let me say that I don't put Democracy Dies in Darkness in the category of cringe branding, but okay.
So just to get that on the record, if you don't mind.
It wasn't very sneaky.
It was quite blatant.
So I found it nauseating seeing that
That encounter at Blue Origin with Pete Hegseth being there, particularly given that Pete Hegseth, and I'm going to continue calling him Secretary of Defense.
I insist on that because that is, in fact, his official title, because he's the one who had expelled real journalists from the Pentagon.
including the Post's own reporters.
He's the one who asked the Department of Justice to raid the home of Hannah Natanson, one of the Post's own reporters, and they seized all of her electronic devices, and they have extracted the information from those devices as well.
It's not clear that they've reviewed that information yet.