President Donald Trump mentioned Jeff Bezos is doing “an actual job with The Washington Put up” in what gave the impression to be reward for the route the billionaire is taking his newspaper.
The president’s feedback got here after Bezos final month demanded The Put up’s opinion pages restrict what they cowl, the most recent in a sequence of controversial adjustments introduced in by the Amazon tycoon since his 2013 takeover.
Trump’s admiration for Bezos emerged when he spoke with Sharyl Attkisson for her Sunday morning present, “Full Measure,” which airs on native Sinclair stations, and was picked up by CNN’s “Reliable Sources” publication.
Attkisson requested whether or not the media is “treating you higher” in his second time period. He replied the media “hasn’t modified” earlier than switching his focus to tech corporations which have cozied up to Trump since his election.
“What has modified is, I feel, Fb and Google and plenty of them have grow to be …,” Trump mentioned, with out ending his thought.
“I feel a man like Bezos has … I’ve gotten to know him. I feel he’s making an attempt to do an actual job. Jeff Bezos is making an attempt to do an actual job with The Washington Put up, and that wasn’t occurring earlier than.”
He added, “My first time, I had Google in opposition to me, I had Fb in opposition to me, I had Instagram, I had everyone in opposition to me. The entire world was in opposition to me.”
Bezos sparked a newsroom backlash in February after asserting the editorial part would transfer away from its conventional broad focus and as a substitute focus on “private liberties and free markets.”
He added that “viewpoints opposing these pillars will probably be left to be revealed by others.”
Weeks later, Put up columnist Ruth Marcus reportedly stop the newspaper after a column she wrote criticizing the brand new imaginative and prescient for the opinion part was spiked.
Final 12 months, The Put up ended its custom of endorsing presidential nominees, which led to an exodus of subscribers.
In January, one of many newspaper’s cartoonists resigned after an editor rejected her sketch of Bezos and different executives bowing earlier than Trump.
