AMAZON POST

The Washington Post Is Officially…

I am not really sure

Jeff Bezos, founder of private space company Blue Origin and the Amazon.com, visited the Los Angeles Air Force base, Space and Missile Systems center and spoke to the Commanders and Leaderships of Air Force Space Command at Ft. MacArthur, San Pedro, Calif., Oct 25, 2017 (Public Domain)

My friend, DeAngelo, calls my hometown newspaper, The Washington Post, — The Amazon Post.

I do too. It’s pretty funny.

We call it as such because years ago, Jeff Bezos, the man who co-created Amazon, the behemoth monopolistic digital Wal Mart, bought the newspaper. Bezos owns the Washington Post.

Ever since then, the newspaper has had less allure for me (I still buy it off the stand sometimes). It has now sank into the proverbial cultural quicksand when Bezos overturned the newspaper’s decision to endorse Kamala Harris for President. The editorial staff elected to endorse Harris and Bezos said — “Wayminit.”

He vetoed it.

Then social media immediately lit up. Thousands of people unsubscribed to the newspaper, according to some people. The Post, many others declared is dead.

Truthfully, the Washington Post, the newspaper I grew up reading, has long been dead. It was once the best newspaper in the country and had, by far, the very best sports page. However, those days have been over. The Washington Post, which rose to international legend during and after the Watergate conspiracy and investigation of the early 1970s, hasn’t been that newspaper for a long…