Bezos name as a the buyer of the Washington Post could be very misleading. He is a masterful entrepeneur and may have “bought” the “paper” for other reasons. Some of these are mundane. For example, on friend suggestd Mrs. Bezos asked him ot buy a paper on the way home.
Here are more ideas:
a. Jeff may need losses for tax purposes.
b. Besides its flagship, the WP may own other assets. Maybe it owns land in DEC where Jeff can build a superhigh sky scraper?
c. WP staff includes very connected people .. Bezos may see this as cheaper than buying a K street firm to do his lobbying.
d. WP already published ebooks. The name would be a great platform to take on the traditional publishers!
e. He an Buffett may have a plan to corner the pulp market,
f. Given the sad state of Cable news, the new Al Jazeera channel will be the ONLY real news on TV. The WP could be a platform to launch an American Based World channel patterned on Al jazzer?
g. Please Note: The papers name is the Washington Post. Maybe Jeff means this to be This Washington’s Post?
h. The WP has made little profit off of its brandname. Its nickname the WAPO may be worth $100,000,000 on its own.
i. The WP office is said ot have a wonderful executive suite where Jeff can stay when he is in the “other Washington.”
j. As Publisher of the WAPO, Jeff will now get invited to a lot of parties!
k. The WAPO gives Jeff a politcal staff in case he wants to sponsor someone to run … e.g. maybe Mrs. Bezos wants to be a Senator after P:atty Murry runs as Hillary’s Veep?
l. Being Publisher of the WP provides a great home office deduction of Jew wants to build anew manse here in Seattle or buy himself a executive 787!
m. Jeff has four children, He’s got four children, one of whom is adopted from China. Seeing how nice Frank Blethen has been by turning the Seattle Times over to his less than talented son Ryan,Blethen, Jeff may be buying the post as a heritage when one of his kids is old enough to need a job.