Hillary Clinton says that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos “saved” The Washington Post by buying it in 2013, setting an example that more tech moguls should follow. “I think Jeff Bezos saved The Washington Post,” she said, during an interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at Recode’s Code Conference. “I think a lot of people, a lot of his peers and friends, thought — why would you buy this ancient medium called a newspaper? But newspapers like the Post, the Journal, the Times, a few others, still drive news. It drives news online, drives news on TV.”
“I think it was a very good use of his financial resources,” Clinton continued. “Because now we have a very good newspaper again operating in Washington, and driving news elsewhere.”
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