Huffington Magazine Issue 61 | Page 34

Voices of sales tax policies. You can make the case that Amazon is in key respects much like Walmart — a behemoth capable of wielding its size and ubiquity to crush competitors. But if you care about the future of journalism, it’s also worth appreciating that the Washington Post — forever linked to Watergate and myriad feats of accountability reporting since — is now owned by someone with a demonstrated track record of harnessing the Internet to rejuvenate something already established and meaningful. Someone with an extraordinary digital vision and access to great stores of money. Someone who has used both of those goods to reshape the consumer experience for millions of people while yielding sustainable profits. That’s no small thing. For this, we can thank Don Graham, the latest in a family line that — despite inev