[gkoberger]

Uh, he bought WaPo in 2013. Trump began running in 2015. How could you possibly know what would have happened without Bezos? NYT wasn't bought by Bezos, and currently has a similar number of Trump articles.

That being said, one bad thing about Bezos owning WaPo is that Trump can dismiss it as "Bezo's / Amazon's WaPo".

[Pilfer]

I'm addressing this point. Earlier you stated

> it seems like he hasn't touched the editorial side at all

which on the surface looks true, but under the surface isn't. Bezos has been directing editorial coverage behind the scenes at WaPo. I belive this is what rufus_2 is referring to as 'despicable'. That you said you haven't noticed it makes it more worrying.

While additional Trump coverage may have happened without Bezos interfering, and I agree this would happen naturally, the issue here is that the changes happened at the request of Bezos. Bezos did interfere on the editorial side and did direct the paper to cover more of certain stories and less of others.

Regarding the NYT, its articles regarding Trump are noticeably more tame and fewer in number.

[emodendroket]

The New York Times began outright calling Trump's statements false in their articles. They were anything but complimentary.