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5WaPo must piss Bezos off to no end, because here he is a guy who really believes that work improves the soul, people are naturally lazy, and they need to be driven - and he ends up saddled with this dumb ass newspaper that just sits there and loses money every single year of its existence.
A decade ago a big newspaper still meant you had a "voice" and a "seat at the table" of forming "public opinion" (opinion of elderly people).
These days newspapers just get laughed at, you can't even stir up a scandal on someone, the DGAF is so strong that you see media actually just stop trying to scandalize after a couple weeks.
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7Now influencing people is more something you do surreptitiously, with jokes and normalizing something without actually saying that it's true.
Yeah, or you'd dance around the lie you're trying to tell.
Last year the results of a poll came out about pulling teeth with or without a pain killer. 51 percent of people favored pain killers, 10 percent was against it, and the rest was undecided.
Rosebud!