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   Harry McCracken 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (harrymccracken@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 05:04:11 JST Harry McCracken 🇺🇦🇮🇱

   This is brutal and could have been avoided in any of several ways. (I am not cancelling my subscription and find the whole idea of doing so based on one terrible decision to be counterproductive.) https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168416/washington-post-bezos-endorsement-president-cancellations-resignations

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 05:04:09 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • Jonathan Glick

     @Jonathanglick @harrymccracken It also sets up a dangerous precedent where editorial decisions get compromised and ownership having the ultimate final say on what stories will and won't get published (as I have suspected for years and I'm now vindicated despite some people bashed/blocked me for it in the past).

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     Jonathan Glick (jonathanglick@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 05:04:10 JST Jonathan Glick

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     @harrymccracken Does Bezos think it was a terrible decision? If not, he’ll presumably continue to act in the same way.

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 01:51:24 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • Kat O’Brien

     @obrien_kat @Jonathanglick @harrymccracken I always believe that editorial groups and not ownership should have the final say on what to hire, publish stories, etc so I agree there.

     Sadly in the last 2-3 years that has not happened if you consider that so many important information and stories got buried or unpublished for years so writers can sell books for example.

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     Kat O’Brien (obrien_kat@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 01:51:26 JST Kat O’Brien

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     • Joe Ortiz

     @joeo10 @Jonathanglick @harrymccracken I will inject one caveat there - not all owners get involved in content decisions. Some definitely do, but others leave it to their teams. There still is influence in who they hire, though even there, some delegate to an independent board.