[75dvtwin]

10s of millions of people in US think that Wash Post is colluding with coup orchestrators, trying to overthrow constitutionally elected US president.

With the above sentiment, giving Wash Post owner a 10 bln dollar Gov contract for work with military -- would have be borderline absurd. It is difficult to separate these types of discussion from political bias of commenters, but you would have to create your own views (if you do not have them already)

For pro-president, anti-Coup views on the topic, search for:

To find some examples of Wash Post collusion with the coup crowd, just use:

- "Washington Post forced to correct"

- "Washington Post fabricated" in non-Google non-Yahoo search engines.

- "Washington post Covington no apology"

- "Washington post sandbagged"

[noelsusman]

It's a lot more absurd to make government contract decisions based on newspaper coverage the president doesn't like.

[75dvtwin]

I agree that Bezos's/ Wash Post disposition relative to the anti-President coup, likely had to be important consideration.

As I noted, 10s of millions of tax payers consider Washington Post is not a newspaper, but a propaganda agent actively involved in to the coup attempt against a constitutionally elected President of US.

Just chucking it of to 'president does not like a news paper' -- is diluting the tremendous affects these things have on the well-being of the country and its citizens, and, (given US position in the world stage) , on the rest of the world.

Additionally, anti-president spying and evidence manufacturing was, in part, orchestrated by leaking to these 'newspapers' and then referencing the generated articles as 'potential evidence' that warrants the investigation.

(eg, leaking the dossier [1] and other fabrications through news organizations )

Some think the anti-president coup attempt in US, is good for the country and for the world.

Some do not.

That probably, defines a big part of person's view, where they stand on awarding contract to AWS vs MS.

(Unless there is tremendous technical evidence that MSs offer will not be competent compared to AWS, or that financial burden on tax budget will be enormously different)

[1] https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/fisa-memo-scarier-wat...

[Slartie]

Well, tens of millions of tax payers consider Fox News not a News network at all, but a propaganda agent actively involved in to the coup attempt of a loosely coupled conglomerate of foreign-nation stakeholders and private domestic stakeholders (of which one of them happened to become elevated into presidential office by a minority of the countrys' voters) against the Constitution of the United States.

[belltaco]

You should look up the definition of a coup before making statements like that.

[75dvtwin]

Could not modify to add to bullet points above, but Washington Posts' obituary notice to ISIS head Al-Baghdadi, seems to prove the point...

Washington Post referred to the now dead head of the terrorist organization as: 'austere religions scholar'.

I guess, for Washington Post, Hitler was a dog loving vegan and a self-taught artist.

(they have changed the article by now).

Giving Pentagon business contracts to owner of this 'esteemed news publication', hosting these 'journalists' would, definitely would be absurd.