Jeff Bezos chose Medium for possibly the most important blog post of his life

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From Mashable:

When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos dropped a bombshell blog post saying the National Enquirerwas attempting to blackmail him with nude photos, it immediately set the internet ablaze.

The lengthy post is full of scandalous details: not only does the National Enquirer have Bezos’ nudes (which are described in excruciatingly vivid detail), but the company allegedly used said photos to blackmail him into ending a Washington Post investigation into the tabloid. On Friday, AMI issued a statement claiming it had “acted lawfully” in pursuing the story and would investigate Bezos’ allegations.

Bezos’ post also notes the connections between Enquirer-publisher David Pecker, Donald Trump, and the Saudi government.

It’s enough to make anyone’s head explode.

But nearly as surprising is the fact that Bezos, a billionaire who owns The Washington Post, opted to self-publish on Medium.

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Though Medium has hosted a number of famous authors, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, it’s not exactly the place you’d expect the richest man in the world to air his blackmail-fueled dirty laundry.

Billionaire tech moguls tend to favor the op-ed pages of prestigious papers or their own websites, where they can ramble on as long as they like, without the nuisance of an outside editor. Yet Bezos turned to the free platform whose goal is to “fix” the media industry.

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The fallout from Bezos’ decision to make his Enquirer emails public is potentially huge. Legal experts are already speculating it could trigger a new round of investigations into parent company AMI. And while we don’t know what the consequences of Bezos’ disclosures will be yet, the fact is, whatever ends up happening: it all started on Medium.

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5 thoughts on “Jeff Bezos chose Medium for possibly the most important blog post of his life”

  1. I don’t think using the newspaper he owns, and has been criticized for owning, would have been a good idea. Better to keep this issue separate.

    I’m also willing to bet that before this came up, there was a vanishingly small number of internet searches for “Jeff Bezos Nude Pictures”. Just the words make me want to reach for the bleach.

    • A Tweet from Damien Owens…

      I don’t want to see a picture of Jeff Bezos’s dick, thank you very much. I’m perfectly happy with dick pics from my local independent bookseller.

  2. “Though Medium has hosted a number of famous authors, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama…”

    Great example of two famous authors. What, no Jim Comey?
    I can’t decide who’s bias is stronger – Medium or this writer/hack.

  3. This is really simple. Bezos wanted to completely control this post. The only option he has to do that and have it widely read is on Medium, or in the Washington Post. He wisely chose the former and kept the Washington Post out of it.

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