Ex-Washington Post Fact Check Chaveer calls Jeff Bezosu owner “

The Washington Post is a toning ship with a captain who went missing. According to its today’s format, which is missing the captain of the billionaire, Jeff Bezos.

“It should be devoted to this Digital Fox News Digital. “I feel he was committed to that. And then he is some owner, and he should not be because it is, you know, one of the main assets of American journalism.”

Kesler left the post in July after more than 27 years on the newspaper – and his last years were not the best.

“What is so sad is that five years ago I wouldn’t imagine that the Washington Post would be in this state,” Kesler said.

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Kesler never considered leaving the post until he was presented with the proposal for the ransom he accepted. The message was financially bleeding, so much that it was reported to be in 2024 to lose at least $ 77 million. The fishes aimed at the most veterans’ staff, trying to reduce the costs and stop the dismissal.

A well -known verification of the facts was one of several high -profile journalists and observers who have left the newspaper in recent months, many of whom have made the issue with the decisions and editorial changes that the benos themselves ordered.

Kesler compared the position with “staying at Titanic” after he hit the iceberg – aimlessly drifting when he dropped, lacking rescue boats for all ” In the work he wrote on it a recently launched account.

“They must have a vision of where they want to go. And I haven’t seen this vision yet. Is there a vision, it is not clearly formulated,” Kesler said. “It will be a really rocky period in the news in the next five to ten years. And the post will need to prepare for it. And I feel that they have lost a lot, you know, important sailors and captains to continue the ship. So they will have to do less.”

Before you hit the iceberg

Bezos was the goal of the intense lifting of the liberals who accused him of bending his knee to the president Donald Trump Based on the actions that rocked the paper.

At first it was his decision in October to stop the planned approval of the then vice president Kamala Harris Just a few days before the presidential election.

Then, in February, he launched a new mission for editorial pages to promote “personal freedoms and free markets”, promising not to publish any works that go against these principles.

Both cases caused the uprising among the liberal readers of the newspaper, which led to the cancellation of hundreds of thousands of subscriptions. Several employees also resigned.

But Kesler was not always a critic of Bezos. He attributed Amazon to the founder for keeping the message when he bought it in 2013.

“Before the Bezos bought the newspaper, it was in a very bad state,” he said Digital Fox News. “People forget how you know, because the Graham family had no resources to continue it into a new era. And there was a bunch of ransom, and people were asked to leave. So, it was a pretty gloomy period.”

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Things in the position were so much that Kesler himself questioned another work on the newspaper. It was until he was offered checking the fact in 2011, which he accepted, thinking that if the ship went down, he himself could stay afloat with his “brand”.

“But then he bought a paper and he put a lot of money in the newspaper,” Kesler said. “Thus, the size of the employees doubled. The number of foreign bureaus probably increased by at least a third. Resources dedicated to engineering grew, so web pages started uploading faster and we could make a fantastic schedule. position. “

“And now it’s just … It’s like he got into the iceberg, and it’s somehow drifting there, and I don’t think there is a plan to save it. Or at least a plan to know, turn the ship and move the other way.”

“Avis problem”

Kesler accused the leadership of being “slightly blinded” by the spike that came during the first Trump administration, reaching the level of “almost equal” to the chief of the post, The New York Times. But then, unlike the Times, The Post could not use its new readers without expanding its portfolio.

“I sat at many meetings, held a lot of discussions and heard a lot of speeches. I still don’t imagine what they are trying to do,” Kesler said of his former chiefs. “It seems unclear that we will contact (to) people … who are not really worried about the news. And we will provide products that will allow them to read the Washington Post and find out the information they need to know,” he said.

“And the problem, as I wrote in my work, is that this is what the New York Times has been engaged for ten years. They have 10 million subscribers, but a large piece of it is people who do not receive the main news product,” Kesler continued. “They receive recipes, they get sports – a sports section, they receive recommendations for products, get games, play Wordle.”

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He said that this post was stuck with the “Avis problem”, referring to the old -scale car rental announcements, which claimed that “we try”, hinting at reality, it was always in the shadow of the Herz, dynamic like a gray lady.

“The Washington Post has always been No. 2. It never had the same size as the Times. I would claim that the news lighting was better, but perhaps I was prejudiced about it,” Kesler confessed to the digital Fox News.

“But now in this fragmented market people have to make a choice. What am I going to sign up for? What newsletters will I get? What networks will I watch?” Oh, I need one newspaper.

It continued: “This is a broader product. It has the best lighting of art, theatrical lighting. I never understood how the post would fight this problem. And it sounded like the solution was:” Oh, we would like a mini new York Times with things to turn to people who don’t watch the news. “

In the message is there Did the initiative Launched last year, called “WP Ventures” designed to attract social media users. However, the document appears to be already turning with the announcement on Tuesday the former Axios Executive Editor and the former Post reporter, Sarah Kehuloni Gu, returning as President Creator Network-New position that says the “creation of the content guided by the person” and helps to provide advertisers.

“Meteorite” wipes the rest of the dinosaurs

The times and the rise of the new media were not the only obstacles facing the post.

“In the middle of my journalistic career, I started saying,” I work for dinosaur. “And AI is perhaps a meteorite that will kill the last of the dinosaurs,” said Kesler Fox News Digital. “I am very concerned about what AI will do because AI beat the search. And the search was how people often found our news articles.”

“The statistics I saw was that four -years ago, every 100 searches on Google gave six clicks on the news site. Now it is about every 100 search, giving two clicks on the news site. If people use AI, thousands of searches lead to one click,” he continued. “So, this is a dramatic difference. And if I managed an information organization, at that moment I don’t know what I would do with it. So, it’s a bad time to manage a new organization. I have sympathy for the situation that (Washington Postisher and CEO) will be Lewis and (Washington Post Executive). I just ask if they really understood what to do. “

In her announcement, Guo said that “we will give it to all we do to help us increase the efficiency and scale as much as possible.”

But, according to Kesler, the dollar eventually stops with a free.

“The post was really at her high point (after the purchase of Bezos) – the number of stories we create, the quality of the stories was really significant. And then the traffic grew when Trump was chosen, and there was so much hunger and interest in the news we created. We somehow lost our way afterwards,” said Kesler. “And not only lost our way, we started to lose money. One hundred million one year, I think the last number I saw (in) 2023 77 million dollars… I think even for a person as rich as Jeff Bezos, it is considered real money. “

“And I felt that he was a little part -time. Now, and I and now, and I don’t know.

Press -Secretary of Washington Post told Fox News Digital, “The Washington Post rethink itself a trusted news source for all Americans. This means that every day is stubbornly working on the publication of the most accurate news, as well as the opinions that resonate across the country. “

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Fox News’ Annie McCuen has contributed to this report.