{"id":1777,"date":"2026-02-09T20:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:40:33","slug":"dont-ever-try-to-be-a-saviour-for-journalism-jeff-bezos-is-finding-out-the-hard-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/dont-ever-try-to-be-a-saviour-for-journalism-jeff-bezos-is-finding-out-the-hard-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t ever try to be a saviour for journalism. Jeff Bezos is finding out the hard way."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Journalism collapsed long before Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post, but you’d never know from recent headlines<\/a> from vested interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once upon a time, journalists decreed the same man as a Billionaire Saviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memo to those jonesing for a “Journalism Saviour” halo: don’t bother. Jeff Bezos should have found some puppies in a shelter, instead. They are a lot cuter, cheaper, and grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by Alexandra Kitty with additional research by Perplexity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Journalism collapsed long before Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post, but you’d never know from recent headlines from vested interests. Once upon a time, journalists decreed the same man as a Billionaire Saviour. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Also here, here and here. Memo to those jonesing for a “Journalism Saviour” halo: don’t bother. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[293,298,33,295,292,301,209,289,265,166,294,290,297,300,296,303,291,106,302,94],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandra-kitty","tag-adweek","tag-butch-ward","tag-cnn","tag-columbia-journalism-review","tag-dan-kennedy","tag-dan-sinker","tag-fox-news","tag-howard-kurtz","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-journalism","tag-kyle-pope","tag-margaret-sullivan","tag-phys-org","tag-poynter","tag-rob-lever","tag-sam-gustin","tag-shorenstein-center","tag-the-guardian","tag-time","tag-washington-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}