Bezos spikes Anti-Musk ad
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That’s what friends are for:
Tuesday’s edition of the Washington Post was supposed to feature a very straightforward message: Fire Elon Musk. Two advocacy groups teamed up to buy an ad placement that would have wrapped the paper in the call for Musk’s outing. But, according to one of the groups involved in the ad buy that spoke with The Hill, the Post backed out of the agreement and said it would not run the message on the outside of the paper.
Common Cause, a nonprofit watchdog organization, teamed with the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund on the advertisement. They claimed to The Hill to have signed a $115,000 agreement with the Post to full cover messages on the front and the back of the Washington Post’s Tuesday issue, along with a full-page ad inside the paper. The ads would have appeared on the papers of people working at Congress, the Pentagon and the White House.
But once the groups submitted the messaging that they wanted, the Post said it wouldn’t run it. The paper’s ad department said the ad inside the paper could stay, but the outer wraps were a no-go, according to Common Cause, which said it was not given a clear explanation as to why the front and back page spots couldn’t move forward.
Had the spot moved forward as planned, it would have featured a cover image of Elon Musk cackling as he overshadows the White House with the message “Who’s running this country: Donald Trump or Elon Musk?” The back of the paper would have shown another image of Musk with a simple statement: “No one elected Elon Musk to any office.”
Bezos has not yet reached Musk-level destruction as owner of the Post — in my judgment it has done the best critical reporting about DOGE of any major mainstream outlet — but there’s certainly ample reason for concern going forward as the nation’s leading plutocrats become more entwined with the Trump administration.