Washington Post Readers Rip Bezos as He Stays Silent on Raid

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Washington Post readers are blasting the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, for staying silent after the FBI conducted a shock search of the home of a reporter digging into the Trump administration. Hannah Natanson, a reporter dubbed the Post’s “federal government whisperer,” said Wednesday that the FBI searched her home in Alexandria, Virginia—a move critics decried as a crackdown on press freedom. The Post was among the numerous outlets reporting on the search, but readers quickly noticed that Amazon CEO Bezos remained silent. Within hours of the paper publishing an article about the search, more than a thousand comments flooded the site, many aimed squarely at the billionaire owner. Read more at The Daily Beast.