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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos — The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family's stewardship of one of America's leading news organizations after four generations.
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The Atlantic Online:
The Politics of New Washington Post Owner Jeff Bezos — The Amazon.com founder and CEO is a strong backer of gay marriage and an internet sales tax but otherwise fairly opaque. — In a shocking announcement late Monday, The Washington Post Co. announced that it's selling its eponymous newspaper …
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Jeff Bezos / Washington Post:
Jeff Bezos on Post purchase — To the employees of The Washington Post: — You'll have heard the news, and many of you will greet it with a degree of apprehension. When a single family owns a company for many decades, and when that family acts for all those decades in good faith …
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Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos — Bezos, in an interview, called The Post “an important institution” and expressed optimism about its future. “I don't want to imply that I have a worked-out plan,” he said. “This will be uncharted terrain, and it will require experimentation.”
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Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:
Bezos In 2012: People Won't Pay For News On The Web, Print Will Be Dead In 20 Years — Before Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million, he had some choice words for the ailing print news industry. In a wide-ranging interview with the German paper, Berliner-Zeitung …
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John F. Harris / Politico:
What is Jeff Bezos thinking? — Within minutes of the news going public, I had an email from a recognizable byline at the Washington Post that captured my feelings exactly: “Holy. S**t.” — In the heyday of this singular American institution, those two words were the very phrase …
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Emily Bell / Business Insider:
Jeff Bezos' Shocking Washington Post Buy Was Not A Business Deal — It Was A Cultural Statement
Jeff Bezos' Shocking Washington Post Buy Was Not A Business Deal — It Was A Cultural Statement
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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Amazon's Founder to Buy The Washington Post
Amazon's Founder to Buy The Washington Post
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Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
Amazon's Jeff Bezos Buys the Washington Post for $250 Million
Amazon's Jeff Bezos Buys the Washington Post for $250 Million
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Washington Post sold to Amazon's Jeff Bezos for $250 million
Washington Post sold to Amazon's Jeff Bezos for $250 million
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TIME:
The Hidden Motivation Behind GOP Threats to Boycott NBC, CNN — The Republican Party threatened Monday to pull 2016 Republican primary debates from CNN and NBC if they do not drop plans for special programs on potential 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton—a move that could help …
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Ruben Navarrette / CNN:
Christie vs. Paul vs. Rubio vs. Cruz — the Republican implosion
Christie vs. Paul vs. Rubio vs. Cruz — the Republican implosion
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
RNC hits NBC, CNN for Hillary films; threatens to pull debate rights
RNC hits NBC, CNN for Hillary films; threatens to pull debate rights
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Variety:
CNN Calls Republicans' Hillary Clinton Threat 'Disservice to ‘Voters’
CNN Calls Republicans' Hillary Clinton Threat 'Disservice to ‘Voters’
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Jonathan Bernstein / The Plum Line:
GOP threatens to retreat deeper into closed information feedback loop
GOP threatens to retreat deeper into closed information feedback loop
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Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
RNC Says No Debates If NBC and CNN Don't Pull Clinton Movies
RNC Says No Debates If NBC and CNN Don't Pull Clinton Movies
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
RNC warns networks: Drop Clinton movies or lose 2016 GOP debates
RNC warns networks: Drop Clinton movies or lose 2016 GOP debates
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Travel.State.Gov:
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE — Yemen — The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the high security threat level in Yemen due to terrorist activities and civil unrest. The Department urges U.S. citizens to defer travel to Yemen and those U.S. citizens currently living in Yemen to depart immediately.
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New York Times:
Qaeda Leader's Edict to Yemen Affiliate Is Said to Prompt Alert — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's decision last week to close nearly two dozen diplomatic missions and issue a worldwide travel alert resulted from intercepted electronic communications in which the head of Al Qaeda …
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Angelo M. Codevilla / Library of Law & Liberty:
Manipulating the U.S. Intelligence Community Shouldn't Be This Easy
Manipulating the U.S. Intelligence Community Shouldn't Be This Easy
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Wendy Davis: 'I don't know what happened in the Gosnell case' — Texas state senator Wendy Davis spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Monday afternoon about her 13-hour filibuster of a bill limiting late-term abortion, her life story, and her future in politics.
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The Texas Tribune:
Davis Says She'll Run for Re-election or for Governor
Davis Says She'll Run for Re-election or for Governor
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Wayne Slater / Trail Blazers Blog:
Rick Perry shows up in new glasses at RedState gathering
Rick Perry shows up in new glasses at RedState gathering
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ThinkProgress:
Congressman Offers Crack Political Advice To Boehner: Attack Obamacare's Tanning Tax As Racist — Obamacare's 10% tax on tanning bed services is racist against white people because darker-skinned people don't need to tan. At least, that's what Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) advised Speaker John Boehner …
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Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
House GOP Weighs Defunding ACORN In 13th Vote To Block Funds To Defunct Organization — WASHINGTON — When House GOP leaders abruptly shelved a bill to fund standard federal transportation and housing programs last Wednesday, one of the legislation's few uncontroversial provisions …
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The Front Man — Conservatives have for years attempted to put our finger upon precisely why Barack Obama strikes us as queer in precisely the way he does. There is an alienness about him, which in the fever swamps is expressed in all that ridiculous Kenyan-Muslim hokum …
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Antoni Slodkowski / Reuters:
Exclusive: Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an ‘emergency’ — TOKYO - Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an “emergency” that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country's nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
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Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker:
Get The Full Weiner Experience with Sydney Leathers' ‘Sex Tape’ [NSFW] — Want to see what's so great about Sydney Leathers' naked bits that Anthony Weiner felt compelled to annihilate his political prospects over them? — Well, luckily for you, Ms. Leathers is just as shameless as you are!
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