The Washington Post won’t say why it cancelled a six-figure ad buy calling for Elon Musk to be fired, but it’s likely the same reason the Post insisted Musk wasn’t Nazi-saluting on Inauguration Day, and why the paper killed its endorsement of Kamala Harris: because that’s what Jeff Bezos wants.

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    12 hours ago

    All of their businesses work together. Many of their staff have relationships at the opposing organizations. There’s just not much to gain for these guys when it comes to burning bridges with each other.

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    20 hours ago

    Bezos doesn’t give two shits about Musk and isn’t “looking out” for him - he just won’t air criticisms of Musk that also apply to himself.

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    24 hours ago

    I actually just watched a musical last night that was based off this topic. It was called newsies and it was about the new york paper boy strike. Same exact circumstance, the newspaper owners rose the cost of the paper because they knew that the child labor force they were using had to work for them in order to make ends meet.

    Well they ended up striking, but the newspaper industries put out a topic ban on anything related to the strike because they knew it would negatively effect them if they ran the topics.