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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAMI Might Be Trying To Blackmail Bezos And The Washington Post Into Giving Trump Good Press
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO and owner of the Washington Post, is accusing American Media Inc. (AMI), the parent company of the National Enquirer, of extortion and blackmail.
In a Medium post published by Bezos on Thursday, he accused AMI of threatening to release embarrassing photos and text messages of him and a woman the National Enquirer claims he is having an affair with.
On MSNBC on Thursday night, Washington Post reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia floated the theory that AMI could be trying to seek revenge on Bezos for critical coverage of Donald Trump in the Post, the newspaper he owns.
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AMI, of course, spent years protecting Trump through a practice called catch and kill in which they would buy and bury unfavorable stories about the now-president, particularly as it related to his extramarital affairs. - PolitiusUSA
AMI, Fox Entertainment, & the NRA. What a day. Take them all down!
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AMI Might Be Trying To Blackmail Bezos And The Washington Post Into Giving Trump Good Press (Original Post)
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Feb 2019
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(26,045 posts)2. We already KNOW what AMI was trying to blackmail Bezos about...
...because it was right in the e-mail Bezos included in his post: they wanted the WaPo to retract their reporting that AMI was working as a go-between for the Saudi royalty in their dealings with the current administration.
No need to guess what its about when its right there in the initial story.
Gothmog
(145,965 posts)3. Lock AMI up
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njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)5. Jeff Bezos exposes Pecker
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Thank you for the heart