On Sunday, April 12, 2026, perhaps the most “respected” of mainstream media in the Western world, The New York Times, conspicuously featured in its most celebrated weekly edition, the Sunday publication, an entire full length section, headlined: 

“Someone Has to Be Happy. Why Not Lauren Sanchez Bezos? As half of an unfathomably powerful couple, Mrs. Sanchez Bezos seems to have influenced the uber-rich to stop apologizing, and start enjoying themselves.”

That same week, by an almost obscene omission, The New York Times completely failed to publish the horrifying fact that a worker at Amazon warehouse, the source of Mrs. Bezos’ uber-riches, a worker in the loading docks on the south side of Amazon’s distribution center collapsed at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse, and compassionate workers who attempted to perform CPR were ordered to “get back to work,” and the manager said: “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work.” The little known publication, “The Western Edge” was one of the few newspapers who reported the tragedy, which might be described as manslaughter, stating: 

“For more than an hour several employees said, workers in the facility were instructed to continue fetching totes, picking items off shelves and loading them onto trucks for delivery as the man lay dead, and management figured out their next steps. News of the fatality quickly spread through the building, but workers say top managers did not call operations to an immediate halt. A week later, several workers said they still do not know what caused the man to die. Records indicate he was 46 years old.”

The New York Times logo states it publishes “all the news that’s fit to print.” No doubt,, as the Western Edge publication headlined its article:

“Everyone is Replaceable, Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility.”

The New York Times evidently considered this horrifying death, at the Amazon facility, so negligible that it was not “fit to print,”  as The New York Times” evidently agrees that “everyone is replaceable,” (or perhaps it declined to embarrass the barbaric management of the facility owned by the world’s second richest man and his very happy and grateful wife, whom The New York Times so dazzlingly celebrated in its huge section devoted to her, almost simultaneously with the savage death of the Amazon worker.)

No doubt, this grotesque and scandalous failure by the New York Times to publish the circumstances surrounding the death of its “replaceable” worker, or to, at the very least, publish anything at all about it, in its print edition, must have reached the editorial staff, and on April 18, on page 11, Maggie Astor reported: 

“Complaints Document when Companies Deny Basic Accommodations” 

“Jennifer Hatch had been working at an Amazon facility in Lancaster, N.Y. for a few months when she learned she was pregnant in January 2025. Working on her feet hadn’t been a problem before.

But pregnancy exacerbated her asthma, making her breathless and lightheaded, and she developed unexplained abdominal pain that grew worse when she stood. When her doctor completed paperwork advising that she sit periodically, Amazon requested additional documentation and then claimed not to have received it, according to a complaint Ms. Hatch, 35 filed with a federal agency. Weeks passed. Once, struggling to breathe, she found a chair and sat while continuing to work. She felt better – until, her complaint said, a manager told her to stand. In February and March 2025, Ms. Hatch repeatedly left work in an ambulance with severe abdominal pain.  In late March she arrived for a shift and found out she had been fired.  Her hospital visits, according to her complaint, had taken her over her allowable absence time by 90 minutes. Although these ghastly human rights violations are mentioned in the body of Maggie Astor’s article, none of the headlines or subheadlines mention Amazon, though the scandalous human rights violations were occurring mostly at Amazon facilities.

The half-billion dollar wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Bezos in Venice of course consumed an exorbitant amount of New York Times newsprint, as follows

• June 26, 2025: Headline: “With Bezos Wedding, Venice Braces for Love in the Time of Tech Billionaires:
• June 28, 2025: “What to Know About the Wedding of Jeff Bezos
• June 27, 2025: “Scenes From Jeff Bezos’ Wedding in Venice
• June 23, 2025: “You Only Get Married a Few Times. Why Not Go All Out? Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez will wed in Venice this month. Second wedding style has changed significantly over the years.” 

The above is merely a sample of the uber-coverage The New York Times gave to the half-billion dollar wedding of Jeff and Lauren Bezos.

This squandering of newsprint by “The Newspaper of Record” was matched, or surpassed, of course, by the enormous coverage the newspaper gave to the recent “Met Gala,” though it is doubtful the newspaper of record gave much coverage to the urine bottles placed strategically, for use by the uber-billionaire guests at the Gala, urine bottles used, of necessity by workers at the assembly lines of the Amazon warehouses, who are permitted only 15 minutes for a bathroom break, and since it takes three minutes to walk to the bathroom, and three minutes to return to their position on the assembly line, the workers are forced to urinate in empty water bottles beneath their place on the assembly line. According to the AI overview,

“The 42 million-grossing Met Gala was covered comprehensively by The New York Times, focusing heavily on the ‘Fashion is Art theme.”

And while the world is teetering on the brink of a nuclear holocaust, by accident or design, extraordinarily little coverage was given to the perilous situation of the globe, as the United Nations holds its Nuclear-Non-Proliferation session, with side meetings featuring brilliant and alarming speeches by Annie Jacobson, Christian Ciobanu, Ivana Hughes, Peter Kuznick, and others of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

While it is difficult to surpass the covertly vulgar priorities of The New York Times’ devotion of so much of its newsprint  to issues of interest to the 1% Uber-Rich, and its disreputable neglect of issues crucial to the 99% of the population approaching destitution, the other “Respectable Legacy Media,” The Washington Post has succeeded in publishing articles that must be described as barbarous, violations of international law. And, again, The New York Times “carries water” for its fellow propagandist, held in high esteem in DC. A small publication titled “The Canary” headlined:

“Washington Post called for assassination of Iranian negotiators.”

In an article by Marc Thiessen it calls specifically for the US to “carry out a final barrage of leadership strikes, eliminating the Iranian officials who had been spared for the purpose of negotiations. Iran’s leaders must be made to understand that their lives literally depend on reaching a negotiated settlement to Trump’s liking. If they refuse to do so, they will be killed.”

This espousal of murder of negotiators is as breathtakingly and brazenly savage as Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” Its publication on April 8th, two days before Iran’s brilliant negotiator Kamal Kharazzi was murdered by a US-Israeli bomb on his home, which immediately killed his wife, and caused his death on April 9^th, cannot be coincidental. It is support of the Western policy of world domination, by any and all means.  That The Washington Post serves as the platform and mouthpiece for such psychotic policy is alarming. Even more alarming is the fact that both “mainstream media” are evidently in lockstep, serving up “bread and circuses,” as in ancient Rome Nero did, entertaining his followers by Colosseum slaughters of gladiators, with lions devouring Christians as a form of entertainment. This was a form of distraction and terrorization.  It also preceded the collapse of the Roman Empire.

What is the purpose of the two most “respected” mainstream media in the United States failing in their obligation to accurately and objectively inform citizens in a democracy, and, worse, seek to normalize the most barbaric policies? Is it to keep the majority of citizens obedient, controlled by ignorance and bigotry and grotesquely deformed by fear? One can only hope that the increasingly destitute and homeless 99% are awake to this agenda, and their helplessness transforms into rage, which if effectively led, will overturn this suicidal trajectory of capitalism, poised on a nuclear holocaust.

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Carla Stea is a distinguished author and Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

In the course of her career, she was awarded press accreditation at the United States State Department, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, press accreditation at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China. She was also an invited speaker at the First Conference on Health and Environment, Great Hall of the People, Beijing. etc. 

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