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Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez partied with Katy Perry in Europe amid post-crisis: reports – Delco Times

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez partied with Katy Perry in Europe amid post-crisis: reports – Delco Times

Last Friday, the day Jeff Bezos crashed The Washington Post When he faced a crisis over his decision to censor the newspaper’s support of Kamala Harris, the billionaire reportedly avoided the anger of his staff and backlash from subscribers because he lived thousands of miles away in Europe.

Bezos and his celebrity fiancée Lauren Sanchez flew to Europe on Friday to celebrate their friend Katy Perry’s 40th birthday, a source close to Bezos said Semafor said. Sanchez also revealed the lavish weekend getaway to an undisclosed European city in an Instagram story picked up by the tabloid Hello!Semafor also reported.

Hello! said the weekend celebration began in Venice and then continued to Geneva, Switzerland. with the Daily Mail He added that a birthday party was being held at the Ritz Carlton in Geneva.

ELMONT, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 11: (L-R) Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom attend the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for MTV)
ELMONT, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 11: (L-R) Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom attend the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for MTV)

While Perry “undoubtedly received a lot of love from her fiancé Orlando Bloom and daughter Daisy Dove, her friends were also in on the act.” Hello! reported effusively. Sanchez, her close friend, was by her side “for a luxurious and beautiful celebratory getaway,” Hello! said. Perry, by the way, is a Harris supporter and one has to wonder if she agreed with Bezos’ decision to withdraw support for her chosen candidate.

But while Sanchez and Bezos were reportedly enjoying their luxury vacation, editors and reporters working for the news organization he bought in 2013 were reportedly dealing with the disastrous consequences of his decision.

Retired editor-in-chief Marty Baron called the decision an act of “cowardice of which democracy is the victim.” In a joint statement post Legends Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein said the decision “ignores the Washington Post our own overwhelming reporting evidence of the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy.”

The newsroom has been rocked by a tidal wave of columnist resignations and digital subscriber cancellations expressing anger and dismay that the venerable Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization was abandoning its role in countering the threat described by Woodward and Bernstein had. As of Tuesday, the number of cancellations was over 250,000, which corresponds to about 10% of the total circulation sold. This was reported by NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik.

CEO and publisher Will Lewis tried to explain the decision not to support this year’s presidential election or future elections as a return to the presidential election Posts Roots of trying to remain “independent.”

At the end of Bezos’ alleged luxury weekend, he published a column on Monday fundamentally defending his decision. Like Lewis, he said ending presidential endorsements would end the “perception of bias.” He also sought to dismiss suggestions that he spiced up the column to further his business interests with a potential Trump administration.

But Folkenflik said few people in the newspaper believed those arguments. On the one hand, the post has supported presidential candidates since 1976 and continued to do so after Bezos bought the newspaper in 2013. In its recommendations for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in 2016 and 2020, the Posts The editorial board called Trump “the worst president of modern times” and a “great danger to the nation and the world.”

For journalists like Baron, the biggest problem with Bezos’ decision is that the Post only revealed it 11 days before the election in a very close race.

“If this decision had been made three years ago, two years ago, maybe even a year ago, that would have been fine,” Baron said Monday in an interview with NPR’s Morning Edition. “It is certainly a sensible decision. However, this happened only a few weeks after the election, and there was no substantive serious consultation with the newspaper’s editorial team. It was clearly done for other reasons, not high principles.”

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