Why would Jeff Bezos cancel the The Washington Post's presidential endorsement, fully knowing that the cancellation would be a bigger story than any such endorsement? My guess or at least fear: because the (dis)information age is elevating the importance of reliable sources of news, and he wants more control over one. AI via targeted advertising has made journalism more susceptible to such influence by siphoning its revenue from news media to Google and Meta. We have substantially weakened jo...
