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groundloop

(12,749 posts)
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 01:25 AM Dec 2024

Jeff Bezos says he will try to talk Trump out of idea that the news media is an 'enemy'

Source: CNN


Jeff Bezos hopes Donald Trump has changed.

Speaking at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, the billionaire Amazon founder and Washington Post owner said he hopes that a second Trump administration will look more favorably on the press, saying he will “try to talk [Trump] out of” the idea that journalists are an enemy.

“I don’t think the press is the enemy,” Bezos told Andrew Ross Sorkin. “The press is not the enemy, let’s go persuade him of this.”

While Trump famously targeted Bezos and his companies during his first term, Bezos said he was “very optimistic” about a second Trump administration and suggested he even wants to help the incoming president.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/media/jeff-bezos-donald-trump-media-enemy/index.html



Dream On Jeff.
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angrychair

(10,517 posts)
1. Let's be clear
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 01:34 AM
Dec 2024

The news media is absolutely the enemy but they are not his enemy. They are the enemy of democracy. The news media loves TSF more than his own mother did

Karasu

(920 posts)
12. And yet conservatives still spew the same tired "left wing media" nonsense they've been for decades. It'd be
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 04:17 AM
Dec 2024

hilarious if it wasn't so mind-numbingly stupid.

blm

(114,045 posts)
2. BS. Trump doesn't see the press as an enemy. He sees it as his plaything.
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 01:35 AM
Dec 2024

His chew toy. Just another institution to manipulate at will.

Botany

(73,795 posts)
3. Sure Jeff but remember that swimming in De Nile is dangerous
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 01:39 AM
Dec 2024


Btw as you are telling Trump the press is not your enemy I will be teaching my Labrador calculus.

cstanleytech

(27,519 posts)
10. Nahhh, He really should only worry if Trump says he wants him to come with him to meet Mary River.
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 02:31 AM
Dec 2024

JohnSJ

(98,362 posts)
9. History will be repeating itself, and our democracy may not survive this. Kash Patel will be the new j Edgar Hoover,
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 02:22 AM
Dec 2024

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and no one should be surprised with a McCarthy era resurgence, with anyone opposing the sociopath as an enemy of the people. And I sure don’t expect the media to come to our rescue, they will fall right in line as they did during McCarthy era.

2naSalit

(96,353 posts)
14. That's what I was thinking...
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 07:06 AM
Dec 2024

The reincarnation of jedgar. I remember that fucking asshole. This guy is very much 2.0 with NO oversight.

Roy Rolling

(7,273 posts)
11. Why wait?
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 03:20 AM
Dec 2024

Tax the fucking rich already.
Repeal Citizens United.

Talk is cheap, make oligarchs put their money where their mouth is. Stop making promises and giving dog-and-pony show sales pitches. Do something, don’t just talk.

Karasu

(920 posts)
13. Jeff, you hav enough fucking money to end poverty in this country, and THIS is how you choose to use your fucking time?
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 04:25 AM
Dec 2024

Trying to appeal to the nonexistent conscience of Donald fucking Trump?

The stupidity is unfathomable.

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