The former auditor of Washington Post Fact Jeff Bezos “The owner of the absent” calls star-news.press/wp

The Washington Post is a ship sunken with a missing captain at work. According to its founding lines now, this lost captain is the owner of the billionaire, Jeff Bezos.

“He must abide by him. If he is not committed to him, he must find another person he possesses,” Glenn Kisler told Fox News Digital. “I feel he was somewhat committed to him. Then he is an absent owner, and he should not be because, as you know, one of the main assets of the American press.”

Kisler left this position in July more than 27 years after the newspaper – his last years were not the best.

“What raises the lawsuit is that five years ago, I did not imagine that the Washington Post would be in this state,” said Kisler.

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Kisler never thought of leaving the post until he was presented to the acquisition offer, before him. This position was tolerance to the extent that he was walking at a loss of at least $ 77 million in 2024. The acquisitions targeted the most veteran employees, with the aim of reducing costs and ward off workers at the present time.

The famous factory auditor was among many journalists and prominent column writers who have left the paper in recent months, and many of them assumed a problem with the decisions and editorial changes that Bizus himself requested.

Kisler compared this position to “be on Titanic after he hit a iceberg – drifting without a goal as he drowned, with no survival boats for everyone.” In a piece of books On his newly launched alternative account.

“They must have a vision of the place they want to go. I haven’t seen that vision yet. Or if there is a vision, it has not been clearly expressed,” said Kisler. “It will be a truly rock period in the field of news during the five years to the next ten years. This position must be ready for that. I feel somewhat that they have lost a lot, as you know, the important and sectarian sailors to keep the ship continued. So they will have to do less.”

Before hitting the iceberg

Bezos was a target to connect the intense liberals, who accused him of bending the knee to President Donald Trump based on actions that shook the paper.

First, his decision in October to stop the planned support of the footnote to the then Kamala Harris a few days before the presidential elections.

After that, in February, he launched a new task for editorial pages to enhance “personal freedoms and free markets”, while pledging not to publish any pieces that contradict these principles.

Both cases raised a rebellion between liberal readers in the paper, which led to the abolition of hundreds of thousands of subscriptions. Several employees also resigned in protest.

But Kisler was not always a Bizos critic. Amazon founder was registered to save the post when he bought it in 2013.

“Before Bizos bought the newspaper, it was in a very bad condition,” Fox News Digital said. “People forget how, as you know, because the Graham family did not really have the resources to continue in the new era. There was a set of acquisitions and asked people to leave. So it was a very dark period at the time.”

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Kisler Jeff Bizos described as “absent owner” in the Washington Post. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Things in the post were so consistent that Kisler himself was interviewing with a different job outside the paper. It was until he was shown to the auditor in 2011, which preceded him, believing that if the ship fell, he could stay on his feet with his “brand”.

“After that, Bizus bought the paper, and invested a lot of money in the paper,” said Kisler. So, the size of the employees has doubled. The number of foreign offices may have increased at least. The resources for engineering support have increased, so web pages started loading faster, and we can do great drawings. There was an investment in the video … and I really felt that the post was going in places, and in reality it produced a better diet at any time in which I worked in the post. “

“And now it has become so … it seems as if it is hitting an iceberg, a kind of drifting there, and I do not think there is a plan to save it. Or at least a plan, as you know, the heart of the ship and move it in the direction it was.”

“Avis problem”

Kisler blamed the administration for being “slightly impressive” because of the high traffic during the Trump administration, as it reached “almost equal” levels to the first Post competition, the New York Times. But then, unlike the time, the post failed to benefit from new readers by not expanding his wallet.

Kisler said of his former superiors: “I sat in many meetings, conducted many discussions and heard a lot of speeches. I still have any idea what they are trying to do,” Kisler said of his former superiors. “It seems mysterious it says we appeal to people … who are not really concerned with news. We will provide products that allow them to read the Washington Post and know the information they need to know,” he said.

“The problem, as I wrote in my article, is that this is what the New York Times has done ten years ago. They have 10 million subscribers, but a large group of people who do not get the product primary news,” Kisler continued. “They get recipes, get the sports section, get the product recommendations, get games, and play Word.”

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He said that the post stuck to the “The Avis Problem”, citing the ads of the old car rental company that claimed “we are trying more difficult”, noting the fact that it was always in the shadow of Hertz, a dynamic similar to the gray lady.

“The Washington Post has always been second. She didn’t have the same trading in the Times. I would like to claim that the news coverage was better, but perhaps I was biased to that,” Kisler admitted Fox News Digital.

“But now in this fragmented market, people have to choose. What is the alternative that I will participate in? What are the newsletters that I will get? What are the networks that I will see?

He continued, “It is a broader product. It contains better art coverage, theatrical coverage. I never understood how the post will fight this problem. It seemed as if it was the solution,” Oh, we will be a mini -inch in the New York Times with things that do not follow people who do not follow the news. “Well, they have already happened to this in the New York Times.”

The post canceled an initiative launched last year, which is called “WP Ventures”, which aims to attract social media users. However, it seems that the paper was already pivotal with a announcement on Tuesday about the former executive of Axios and the former Post correspondent, Sarah Kehaulani Goo, who returns as head of the Creator Network-a new position that Joe says, “creates content that the character moves” and helps in providing “arrival” to advertisers to a new audience that the creators disgrace.

The Washington Post has just carried out a round of acquisitions targeting the most veteran employees. (Kevin Carter/Getty Emima)

“Nizorit” wipes the remaining dinosaurs

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

“In the middle of my career in the press, I started saying,“ I am working in a dinosaur. ”Kisler told Fox News digital newspaper:“ The meteorite that will kill the last dinosaurs will be very worried about what artificial intelligence will do, because artificial intelligence will kill the research. The research was how people often find our news articles. ”

“The statistics that I saw were that four or five years ago, every 100 search operations on Google resulted in six clicks on a news site. It is now nearly 100 searches that were exposed to two clicks on the news site.” Therefore, it is dramatic teams. And if you are running a news institution, at this point, I don’t know exactly what I will do about it. So it is a bad time to run a new organization. I have sympathy for the position (Washington Post, the chief executive) Lewis and (Washington Executive Editor). I just wonder if they have really discovered what to do. “

“We will discourage artificial intelligence with everything we do to help us increase efficiency and size to the maximum,” Go said in her announcement.

But Back eventually stops with Bezos, according to Kissler.

“The publication was at a high point (after buying Bezos) – the amount of stories we produced, the quality of the stories was really important. After that, the traffic rose when Trump was elected and there was a lot of hunger and attention to the news we were producing. We somewhat lost on our way after that.” “Not only did we lose our way, but we started losing money from money. One hundred million dollars, and I think the last number I saw (in) 2023 was $ 77 million … I think it is even for a rich person like Jeff Bezos, who is not considered real money.”

“I felt that a little absent owner. He had other deviations, and he committed more to some of his other institutions, such as the space company, more than the Washington Post, which is in fact just a small part of his commercial investments. Maybe I do not know, I hate to be a speculation, and you may think he gave us the best shot for him.

A spokesman for the Washington Post told Fox News Digital, ” “The Washington Post is re -invented itself to be a reliable source of news for all Americans. This means serious work every day to spread the most accurate news, along with the opinions that resonate throughout the country. “

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Annie McQueen in Fox News contributed to this report.