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Old 06-30-2014, 07:12 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
The most obvious answer is that Amazon appears to be have yielded the media battlefield to Hachette. If Amazon doesn't put out any information, then there is nothing positive about Amazon that the media has to publish. No grand conspiracy is needed to explain things. Given that Bezos owns the Washington Post, it's somewhat disingenuous to point to someone else owning both media and publishing resources.
As an honorable man, NDA doesn't mean disclose on the sly. I would release nothing. Even were that turn out to be detrimental to my interests.

I can see compelling reasons for why the media might be biased. Your proposed replacement scenario seems no more favorable toward the media. Extortion. "Spin us a story, Amazon, or we'll crucify you." Or abject laziness. "Spin us a story, Amazon, because we're too lazy to think and investigate for ourselves." Perhaps all three of those are combined to varying degrees.
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