The best way I can liken it is to a funeral, but a funeral where you didn't know the person had died in the first place. Thank you for coming. Grandpa has just died.

Should we be writing obits for the Washington Post? New owner Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos doesn't think so. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob

Garfield. In fact, according to Bezos's own biographer, the paper may have just been saved from

extinction. The Washington Post has just been empowered by a guy who has unimaginable wealth,

doesn't care about losing money, and is going to get serious about building something significant on the Internet.

Also, difficult men and why we love them on cable TV dramas.

We're both attracted to the idea of assuming that kind of male power,

and we're repelled by it.

It's an extraordinarily powerful, seductive thing to watch.

All that and so much more after this.

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From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

For the 10 minutes it takes us to speak, no videos, no tweets, no posts because I'm telling you something...

Washington Post Company CEO Don Graham gathered his staff together on Monday and delivered a bombshell.

We sold the Washington Post newspaper, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.

For those who care, the price is $250 million.

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