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So your theory is that Bezos spent $250 million of his own money to buy the Washington Post so that he could get more coverage of Amazon in one newspaper?

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More like; if you spent $250 million of your own cash to buy the WP you might as well use it to get more coverage of your other companies.

Just because it's not the primary reason does not mean it's not happening.

It's actually a good strategy.

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