The Washington Post Reports That It has Been Sold to Amazon’s Founder, Jeff Bezos!
Bezos, is buying the Post and its affiliated publications for $250 million in cash. Amazon will have no role in the purchase.
Bezos, all of a sudden, is gong to become a voice competitive with Rupert Murdock! This is a huge stepo for a man who, at least here in Seattle, has practiced a srcit hand off view of politics. As fars as I know, this man ha sno politics other than being in support of Amazon’s business!
Sale shrouded in secrecy...
NEWSROOM MEET: Staffers asked not to TWEET for 10 minutes...
AMAZON Jeff Bezos buys for $250m...
Bezos was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 1999. In 2008, he was selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s best leaders. The Economist gave Bezos and Gregg Zehr an Innovation Award for the Amazon Kindle. In 2012, Bezos was named Businessperson of The Year by Fortune Magazine. He is also a member of the Bilderberg Group and attended the Swiss 2011 Bilderberg conference in St. Moritz, Switzerland and is a member of the Executive Committee of The Business Council for 2011 and 2012. As of October 2012, According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index Bezos is listed as one of the wealthiest people in the world with an estimated net worth of US 22.1 billion. [26] He was recently ranked the second best CEO in the world by Harvard Business Review, after the late Steve Jobs of Apple.