Good morning. It is Monday, July 24th. It's five minutes after 11. This is Kendall and Casey on

93 WIBC. You can find him Rob M Kendall on Twitter. You can find me there as well. Casey Daniels

317. And we're both on YouTube typing Kendall and Casey into the YouTube search bar. And there we

are. Hey, here's some advice as we start this, this hour of the show. Maybe don't buy a newspaper

right now. Maybe. I don't think people need advice on that. Casey, I think they've taken that

approach on their own. Yes. So 10 years after the Washington Post was purchased by Jeff Bezos,

it's on pace to lose $100 million this year. This year. This year. Oh, this year.

$100 million. So this was a report from Fox News that came out and it is a staggering amount of

money. Now there have been reports that Jeff Bezos, it is so alarming that he is going to

actually get back involved in the operations of the newspaper. So by comparison, he paid $250

million for the Washington Post in 2013. And why this is relevant is because we have seen

much of what you're seeing with the Washington Post here in our own city. And last segment with

hammer, we talked about the, you know, just incredibly egregious mistake by Indystar with the

Ron Sexton photo announcing his death. And what we are seeing and why these two things are very

similar is the Washington Post was, it was a national institution because it was Washington, DC.

And it was the paper of record, you know, obviously many, many incredible stories over the years

have come out of the Washington Post related to covering government, et cetera. But it is

similar in the sense of how Indystar was the paper of record here. And I remember as a kid,

my parents having a subscription to the Indianapolis star. Remember there was a star in the news.

There were two of them. And I remember back in the day when the guy would bring you the little ticket

and you would pay him off the ticket. And that's how you would do your newspaper subscription.

But everybody always clamored for an Indianapolis star. And I get the times of change. And there

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