the optimistic interpretation is that people like Bezos aren't quite as Machiavellian as people make them out to be, the negative one is that it's a 'the king tolerates the jester because he's powerless' situation. Reality is probably somewhere in the middle. Bezos doesn't strike me as the petty type but Amazon's probably also not that afraid of reporting.

Washington Post journalists are unionized since before Jeff Bezos acquired the business.

https://postguild.org/about-us/

The Post has run plenty of unflattering stories about Amazon in the time he’s owned it.

A news organization needs to attack its owners more often, not less, if it wants to maintain credibility.

Jeff Bezos is no longer the CEO of Amazon. I wonder if that changed anything.

Bezos has no say in editorial.

Unless they are all lying and some of the best journalists (who tend to be maybe too ethical e.g. 'equal coverage') are complicit.

I could see an argument about access to the opinion section but he doesn't need to own a paper for that.

> (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Post.)

Also interesting how they disclose the history (founder) but not the current (executive chairman).

Just the way it should be.