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Voices
I
PETER S.
GOODMAN
HUFFINGTON
08.11.13
In
Search
of the
Holy
Graıl
N THE INSTA-ANALYSIS of the stunning deal that put
the Washington Post in the hands of a billionaire whose
company didn’t even exist two decades ago, the transaction tends to get dismissed as something other than
a business deal. ¶ In some accounts, Jeff Bezos is just
another unfathomably rich guy loading up on a vanity
toy that’s landed in the bargain bin. “Some billionaires
like cars, yachts and private jets,” sniffed Andrew Ross
Sorkin. “Others like newspapers.” ¶ Others treat the
deal like an act of charity, likening Bezos to the robber
barons of the late 19th century who plowed their mo-
Amazon.
com founder
Jeff Bezos
(above)
acquired the
Washington
Post on
Monday for
$250 million.