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Bezos-Owned Washington Post Editorial Board Has Thoughts About Billionaire Musk Buying Twitter
Spencer Brown | @itsspencerbrown | Posted: Apr 18, 2022 11:30 AM
As the mainstream media continues to get its knickers in a twist over the prospect of Elon Musk taking over Twitter, the desperate takes have only gotten more laughable. After running several op-eds by writers opposing Musk's attempt at a hostile takeover of the social media platform, The Washington Post's editorial board decided to get in on the fun with a Sunday column that suggests WaPo's editors don't actually know anything about the company for which they work.
"Let’s hope Elon Musk doesn’t win his bid for Twitter," is the headline of the editorial board's piece and it's... exactly what you'd expect from the know-betters who claim "Democracy Dies in Darkness" while running around snuffing out the light of free expression at every turn. From the first lines of their (bad) opinion, the lack of self-awareness is staggering:
If you can’t join them, buy them. This is the philosophy billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk appears to have adopted as he launches a hostile takeover bid for the social media platform Twitter. Let’s hope he doesn’t succeed.
So, for those unaware — apparently including WaPo's editorial board — The Washington Post was purchased by *billionaire* Jeff Bezos in 2013 for a few hundred billion dollars cash. The then-Amazon CEO, apparently rather than joining the news publishing business with an offering of his own, just bought a newspaper.
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