Jeff Bezos takes on the National Enquirer
Marc Fisher on the evolution of Jeff Bezos’s tabloid scandal — and its potential political implications. Plus, Geoff Edgers on how Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C. changed pop culture. And, Ellen McCarthy on the job that shaped Nancy Pelosi’s speakership.
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Jeff Bezos vs. the National Enquirer
On Thursday night, Jeffrey P. Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon.com, published an unusual post on the online platform Medium. In the post titled “No thank you, Mr. Pecker,” Bezos stated that the National Enquirer threatened to publish intimate pictures of him unless he backed off an investigation of the tabloid.
Marc Fisher is a senior editor at The Post. He says Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, and his investigators believe that what the Enquirer published was “a politically motivated hit job that stemmed from a long-running battle between President Trump and Jeff Bezos.”
The song that changed music forever
On a Sunday afternoon in March of 1986, two grizzled white rock stars, way past their prime, meet a hip-hop trio from Queens in a Manhattan recording studio. They created what would become one of the most important songs of the modern era.
Geoff Edgers spent nearly two years covering this collaboration between Run-D.M.C. and Aerosmith. Their remake of “Walk This Way” was the first rap song played on mainstream radio and the first rap song to crack the top 5 of the Billboard 100.
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