It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?

Post by GCSAQCMIYI » Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 3:59 PM UTC

marcus_holmes wrote: post #107

GCSAQCMIYI wrote: post #81

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The reasons he gives for buying it don't tell us anything. His net worth is in the 12 figures. Everything he says publicly is crafted by a well paid and highly competent PR team. If he bought it to gain political influence, which seems to me the only reason that makes any sense whatsoever, or for any other reason that would put him in a bad light, he would not in a million years come out and say that openly.

No idea why you're getting downvoted. This is the guy who refuses to pay his shareholders a dividend, or his employees more than he absolutely has to. He didn't buy a newspaper because he loves giving money away on good causes.

Post by audiometry » Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 4:15 PM UTC

SuoDuanDao wrote: post #96

r_luna wrote: post #83

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That's what our current President and his "deep state" wants you to believe. However, after three + years it's pretty obvious that our President has a firm grip on power. He still plays the victim every once in a while. But all the departments are quite clearly bowing and pleasing him as best they can.

I don't know about that, he wasn't able to get the press to play nice on COVID the way it did during swine flu.

Post by pstuart » Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 4:53 PM UTC

smitty1e wrote: post #118

coffeefirst wrote: post #117

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Actually, I do. You're wildly underestimating how rebellious newspaper editors are. If someone was messing with the reporting, everyone in DC would know, and you'd see remarkably detailed reporting on it throughout other parts of the press.

I would offer that the Project Veritas expose of CNN belies your assertion handily. There is a mindset that dominates academia and carries on into the media. It is reflected in the political donations of journalists. And the distribution of the story bias. It perhaps one should say "stunning lack of anything resembling a distribution".

Post by cvlasdkv » Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 7:26 PM UTC

jazzyk wrote: post #114

derstander wrote: post #111

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In the US the press is not part of the state. Also the swine flu was much less of a problem for the US: the CDC reported less than 13,000 deaths in the US over a one year period vs stats today of over 34,000 for COVID-19 in just a few months — despite the extra precautions taken.

Slightly off-topic, but if you consider that 90% of "mainstream" media is owned by 6 huge corporations, which are interested in maintaining crony capitalism (of which the state is a central player) - then it would not be completely outlandish to think that the press is kinda part of state (conceptually speaking) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownersh...

Post by smitty1e » Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 8:13 PM UTC

pstuart wrote: post #135

smitty1e wrote: post #118

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I would offer that the Project Veritas expose of CNN belies your assertion handily. There is a mindset that dominates academia and carries on into the media. It is reflected in the political donations of journalists. And the distribution of the story bias. It perhaps one should say "stunning lack of anything resembling a distribution".

Of course academia is a "radical left" arena, as it's the domain of our youth and that is a natural expression of their view of the world. All news has bias, but some are more biased than others, and that bias varies from personal and ingrained to organizational and intentional. It's important to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff, as it were. Project Veritas is a right-wing, extremely partisan organization…