World’s Richest Person Escapes Scrutiny From His Own Paper—and Its Rivals

July 30th, 2017

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World’s Richest Person Escapes Scrutiny From His Own Paper—and Its Rivals

July 29th, 2017

Disclosure: Cryptogon has affiliate relationships with Amazon.

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And if Amazon kills my Amazon U.S. affiliate account (like it did with Amazon Germany and Amazon France), Cryptogon is finished. It’s funny/sad that it has come down to this. Who knew Bezos would become a CIA contractor and a major peddler of fake news!?

Not only do I rely on Amazon Affiliate commissions for income, but I wind up spending some of it right back to Amazon when I buy homeschooling materials for my children, and other books.

Yes, I know about Amazon alternatives, but what you may not know is that even those are typically linked to Amazon directly or indirectly. In NZ for example, online retailers are, in many cases, simply forwarding stuff they’re obtaining through Amazon in the U.S. When the item says, “Ships from USA,” yeah, that means Amazon.

Hilariously, The Nile’s Amazon scraper sometimes pulls Amazon references in product titles and includes them on their site:

Woopsee. haha

For years, I’ve made references to company towns on here… Yep, looking in the mirror can be pretty interesting.

The Matrix has you.

Via: FAIR:

The three most prominent US newspapers havenâ€™t run a critical investigative piece on Jeff Bezosâ€™ company Amazon in almost two years, a FAIR survey finds.

A review of 190 articles from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Bezos-owned Washington Post over the past year paints a picture of almost uniformly uncriticalâ€“ofttimes boosterishâ€“coverage. None of the articles were investigative exposes, 6 percent leaned negative, 54 percent were straight reporting or neutral in tone, and 40 percent were positive, mostly with a fawning or even press releaseâ€“like tone.

The last major investigative piece we found in any of these three publications was a 4,500-word critique of Amazonâ€™s labor practices in the New York Times (8/16/15) almost two years ago. Considering that Amazon is the fourth-most-valuable company in the world, with a 43 percent (and growing) share of all US online commerce, itâ€™s a striking absence of journalistic scrutiny.

The line between straight reporting and fawning coverage wasnâ€™t always clear, given the nature of technology journalism, but, in general, a distinction was drawn when reporting on Amazonâ€™s latest moves featured no criticism or contrary third-party input, and the article was mostly indistinguishable from a press release.

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