> How many of their journalists now check what Bezos has said on a topic to avoid career damage?
It's been increasingly explicit that free thought is no longer permitted. WaPo staff got an email earlier this week telling them to align or take the voluntary separation package.
You’re right but IMO it’s worse - there are more people reading it already than any particular today’s media (if you talk about grok or ChatGPT or Gemini probably), and people perceive it as trustworthy given how often people do “@grok is it true?”.