Monday’s PBS News Hour featured an interview on the current meltdown at the Washington Post with blunt-talking liberal journalist Kara Swisher, the class-conscious nemesis of Elon Musk and now of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of the Post. In Swisher’s eyes, he used to be one of the good billionaires. At least until he belatedly realized his paper was slanted and is now making some moves to recalibrate — though that’s not how Swisher phrased it.
Swisher was obliged to disclose a burgeoning conflict of interest when talking about Bezos:
Swisher clarified that she was “thinking about it” and “talking to a lot of people because I’m just disturbed by what’s happening there.” Asked to explain why, she rambled about her career in journalism, which began in the Post’s mailroom, then took a cynical view of Bezos making nice with Trump without mentioning the paper’s…
