Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The Bezos-AMI story isn’t just about the world’s richest man taking on a tawdry tabloid
Amazon chief and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos accused American Media Incorporated, which owns The National Enquirer, of extortion and blackmail.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readAmazon chief and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos accused American Media Incorporated, which owns The National Enquirer, of extortion and blackmail. He says AMI threatened to publish nude pictures he sent his girlfriend unless he called off his probe into how AMI obtained private text messages with her. AMI says its board of directors is now looking into Bezos’s accusation of extortion. But the story is bigger than that. Other threads include the Saudi government, the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and the special counsel’s investigation into Trump.
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Line Editor, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
Jessica Levinson
Professor, LMU's Loyola Law School in Los Angeles
David Folkenflik
NPR media correspondent and author of the book “Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires”