Alan Rusbridger. This toxic creep is complaining about Jeff Bezos’ decision for the Washington Post to not endorse a candidate for the US presidential election.
Thus we have one of the world’s great news organisations, The Washington Post (hereinafter the WashPo), now not telling its readers which candidate it considers would make the best next US president. Its voice has been silenced – by its owner.
Actually, silenced is inaccurate. There is no requirement for any outlet to endorse a candidate. In fact, it is better they don’t frankly, so when Bezos subsequently wrote an article explaining his decision, I’m inclined to agree. News outlets should present the news and leave the electorate to make their own minds up. Sure, a privately owned outlet can, if they wish, do endorsements, but it is better if they refrain.
This, however isn’t what Rusbridger would like. He doesn’t like billionaires so his natural nastiness comes to the fore.
However, there are drawbacks to the “fairy godfather” model of media ownership. One is that such owners tend to be convinced that the skills that brought them Croesus-like wealth can be easily transferred into other areas of life. This is a guy who has shifted such quantities of clothing, white goods, and beauty products that he can buy himself a 417ft superyacht. I mean, how hard is it to run a newspaper?
Non sequitur. As, frankly, is the whole ridiculous diatribe. It doesn’t matter if billionaires think running a newspaper is easy or not, whether they think it is the same as selling white goods or not. Because what Bezos is saying makes perfect sense. Rusbridger is trying to cloud this simple point with logically illiterate word salad – appeal to authority, non sequitur, ad hominem…
You can see the same delusion at work with Elon Musk. A man-child who thinks he can build a city on Mars within 20 years, and maybe he can. So running a decent social media platform should be a doddle, right?
Now there’s some nastiness right there. Elon Musk may or may not go to Mars – he has plans and it’s entirely possible given what he has achieved so far, but that nonentity Rusbridger knows better – not least, he cannot stand the fact that people like him no longer run Twitter and it really rankles now that people he doesn’t like get to speak their minds and dare to disagree with the approved view of the world. Musk’s vision, combined with the wealth to make things happen is written off with this spiteful little put down. Rusbridger is someone to be utterly despised as the poisonous little creep that he is. Visionless and talentless, he has only insults and logical fallacies to offer that he tries to disguise as journalism. It is people like Rusbridger that have led to the decline in this profession – it is precisely because of people like him that they are so despised and distrusted.
Give me Elon Musk and his man-child vision any day. You see, despite Rusbridger’s insults and logical fallacies, is the underlying fact that Bezos has a valid point – there is no need for the Washington Post or any other outlet to endorse an election candidate and Bezos made a perfectly rational case for his decision.
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