The Old Gray Lady is also a nasty bitch.
The NYTimes published a long and mean spirited attack on the employment practices at Amazon. Like all reporters at the NYTimes the reporters who wrote this slash piece (Kantor and Streitfeld) knew the works of all the century old ’muckraking’ journalists like Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell. These modern day buffoons live a century ago both in their minds and in their daily employment.
The reason the Old Gray Lady is acting so viciously is that the founder and CEO of Amazon bought the Washington Post to try and make modern newspapers work. He seems to have a viable plan; and is implementing his plan. He will exchange local press stories for the Washington Post stories in the digital world. Sharing the ad revenue in both directions. That reduces the newsroom and news gathering costs for the Washington Post and all its affiliates.
The trouble with the NYTimes hit piece is that the outdated ‘muckrakers’ have described Amazon as a paradise for meritocracy, hard working people, smart people and people who deserve recognition. It is a rotten place for sicko Lefties, the lame of brain and the lazy. Those people need to work for union shops and government bureaucracies; the NYTimes in other words.
One lefty friend who read the NYTimes hit piece, is a successful businessman, he told me: ”Amazon sounds like a place where I would do well.’
So much for the Gray Old Bitch.