Whoopi Goldberg supports efforts to purchase the Washington Post from Bezos
“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg has signed up for his dream of purchasing technology reporter Kara Swisher’s Washington Post Jeff Bezos Or the idea that it could even be “new newspaper time.”
Swisher said last year he is working on bringing together a group of investors to buy the post, but the billionaire Amazon founder has given no indication that he is willing to sell the Washington, DC paper.
The post has suffered the departure of prominent reporters and editors in recent months, and has plagued some readers and staff last year when they announced they would not support candidates in the 2024 presidential election. Bezos, who was praised for the planned support of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, has plagued staff with recent changes to her paper’s opinion page.
In an ongoing drama in the Post, Swisher reiterated her desire to buy the paper on Thursday’s episode of “The View,” saying she knows many billionaires will help.
Whoopi Goldberg has signed the dream of technology reporter Kara Swisher to buy the Washington Post from Jeff Bezos. (Screenshot/ABC/TheView)
“Money doesn’t matter. Jeff Bezos doesn’t want to sell it because he sees it as a tool now,” Swisher told Gubfest during the day.
“The mask has an X and he has this. What’s going on right now, really good people are leaving. Ruth Marcus is just a great columnist and he’s the head of PR, the head of communications yesterday, and yesterday they’ve lost their subscription.
“He likes to blame reporters. They don’t like to change, and I agreed 10 years ago, but reporters understand that they need to change,” Swisher continued before Goldberg rang.
“So maybe,” Goldberg said when Swisher asked if she wanted to get involved.
“Yes,” Goldberg said. “Maybe the idea is…crowdfunding, because I want to be part of a newspaper that many people should say.”
Goldberg said he saw crowdfunding do “amazing things” and felt it would help fix the post.
“Or maybe it’s time for a new newspaper,” Goldberg said.
Kara Swisher said last year he was working on bringing together a group of investors to buy the Washington Post. (David A. Grogan/CNBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCuniversal via Getty Images)
Post did not respond immediately when asked for a comment from Fox News Digital.
The “head of PR” Swisher mentioned was probably CCO Cathy Beard. It was reportedly announced Her resignation this week. The post does not confirm her exit.
Bezos announced in February that the Opinion section would focus on writing “Support and defense of two pillars of individual freedom and free market.”
Earlier this week, longtime postcolumnist Ruth Marcus detailed her Finished from the paper In The New Yorker’s work, he calls on publishers of his papers for killing Bezos’ critical columns.
“I no longer stayed until Jeff Bezos, the owner of the newspaper, was unable to do so, which issued a dict order that post-opinion offerings would concentrate on the twin pillars of “personal freedom and free markets.” And what’s even more worrying is that the perspectives against those pillars will be published by others.’ I killed a column submitted last week by Post’s publisher Will Lewis, rejecting disagreements in this new direction. Marcus wrote.
Ex-Washington Post Columnist Descends from Paper After Detail Editor Kills Bezos’ Critical Column
Former Washington Post opinion columnist Ruth Marcus detailed why New Yorker left the paper after the editor killed a column criticizing Jeff Bezos. (Left: (Photo by Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images))
Marcus joined several staff members who left the post, including the former. Columnist Jennifer Rubin, She was very critical of the paper owner at her departure.
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Jeffrey Clark of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.