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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

John Cassidy and David Remnick on the Washington Post.

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Washington, News, Politics, President, Wickenden, Wnyc, Barack, Obama, Lizza

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2013

⏱️ 15 minutes

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John Cassidy and David Remnick on the Washington Post.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

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It's Thursday, August 8th.

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I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker. and editors about politics. It's Thursday, August 8th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon,

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executive editor of The New Yorker. It's pretty obvious that Jeff Bezos has a certain strength when it comes to the future of news. You know, when you think about that growing and growing and

1:06.3

growing digital and mobile audience, Jeff knows a lot about that. That was Donald Graham, the Washington

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Post's chief executive talking on Monday about his family's decision to sell the paper to Jeff Bezos,

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the founder and CEO of Amazon. To talk about what this means for the future of The Post and print

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journalism and what Jeff Bezos hopes to get from his investment. I'm joined by David

1:27.9

Remnick and John Cassidy. David, the news of the sale of the post this week was a shock to just

1:33.4

about everyone, even though a lot of people knew that its circulation was dropping drastically,

1:38.7

among other problems. You spoke to Graham at the beginning of the week, a former boss of yours.

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What did he tell you?

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