Resumen de Brick by brick

Michael Meyer

• Meyer talks about the sale of Washington Post to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. In the outside world, reaction to the sale split into two groups: those who couldn't believe that the Grahams would sell the Post, and those who couldn't believe that a visionary entrepreneur like Jeff Bezos would want anything to do with a newspaper. Inside the Post, the dominant emotion was shock at the Graham family's imminent departure. Don Graham, in particular, had served as an institutional father figure to thousands of journalists over the years--a kind millionaire who wrote personal notes to reporters about their high school volleyball write-ups and yearlong investigations. He was, by nearly all accounts, a gentleman.