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Papers across the country carried the news that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is stepping away from the CEO role. Readers of stories like AP‘s February 2 report heard once again the story of how Bezos, having “quickly determined that an online bookstore would resonate with consumers,” took that idea and “built it into a shopping and entertainment behemoth,” how what started in a Seattle garage is now one of the world’s most valuable companies, “worth” some $1.7 trillion, “swelling” Bezos’ own riches along the way. We learned that Bezos will soon have more time for “side projects,” one of which is, you know, the Washington Post.
There’s a mention toward the end of “calls for greater regulation,” but you can read this story with a magnifying glass and find not a hint of the concurrent major news story: that the Federal Trade Commission had to force Amazon to pay some $62 million for stealing tips from their delivery drivers, nearly a third of their tips over a two-year period, according to FTC chair Rohit Chopra.
fair.org
Yeah.........nobody really wants to talk about that..
There’s a mention toward the end of “calls for greater regulation,” but you can read this story with a magnifying glass and find not a hint of the concurrent major news story: that the Federal Trade Commission had to force Amazon to pay some $62 million for stealing tips from their delivery drivers, nearly a third of their tips over a two-year period, according to FTC chair Rohit Chopra.
For Media, Bezos' Self-Made Billions Are a Separate Story From Amazon Stealing Tips - FAIR
Corporate media are going out of their way to protect the narrative of the "self-made" magnate, his ungodly profits earnestly come by, and to resist what might be the natural tendency of readers to put what Jeff Bezos calls his "Amazon winnings" in the context of broader societal costs.
fair.org
Yeah.........nobody really wants to talk about that..
