Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

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45 points·jbegley··8 comments

Hatchet man for Bezos. Now someone slightly more affable, maybe even an insider, will get the job but all the damage is done.

There's a litany of such characters over the years; Al Dunlap comes to mind and his tenure at Consolidated Press Holdings.

It's the former Tumblr CEO. Technically a promotion from within but he was a recent hire as CFO.

Is this actually a strategy that is more common now? Trump is famous for this - he does outrageous things and then throws someone under the bus. That person leaves, they take all the reputational damage, Trump continues. Maybe Bezos and other billionaires are looking at Trump and thinking “Maybe I should go that far as well”?

Yes if there’s anything Trump has been known for since the 80s it’s his sterling positive reputation and putting others in the spotlight.

C’mon… there’s no reason to hallucinate information like ChatGPT circa 2022.

> there’s no reason to hallucinate information like ChatGPT circa 2022

It still does that today, unfortunately. A smart man does not trust an LLM further than he can throw it.

Ever watched literally any mob movie ever?

You're describing classic criminal enterprise org management.

It's such a typical pattern that RICO statutes have a specific mechanism ("vicarious liability") to still go after criminal leaders when they engage in this behavior.

Tech oligarchs controlling all forms of media.

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