Bezos’s move is not like the recent purchases of Newsweek, where there was an illusion of turning it around, or the Boston Globe, bought by John Henry, who owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team and Liverpool Football Club. Perhaps the most interesting example is Rupert Murdoch – the son of an Australian news baron – who recently split his family-controlled News Corporation, into the TV and film company 21st Century Fox and the less profitable new News Corp, which retains the news and publishing operations.
贝索斯此举不同于此前抱着扭亏为盈的幻想对于《新闻周刊》的收购。 它也不同于约翰·亨利收购《波士顿环球报》，后者已经将波士顿红袜队和利物浦足球俱乐部的所有权收入囊中。最耐人寻味的例子也许是澳大利亚新闻巨头的儿子鲁珀特·默多克，默多克不久前将其家族控制的新闻集团一分为二，形成了21世纪福克斯电视电影公司和保留新闻出版业务的利润不那么丰厚的新闻集团两块业务。