Published: March 10, 2019
The bad journalistic practices the Amazon chief accuses the National Enquirer of, while not rife, are not unheard of
In exposing what he called an extortionate proposal from the US publication National Enquirer, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, concentrated minds in newsrooms last month when he wrote in a blogpost: “Be assured, no real journalists ever propose anything like what is happening here.”
The Enquirer’s proposal, in emails Bezos disclosed, was that if Bezos would state publicly that there was no basis for suggesting the Enquirer’s coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces, the Enquirer would stop publishing intensely private communications between Bezos and a woman with whom he was in a relationship.
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