Getty ImagesIt took less than a day for the animators at Taiwan’s Next Media Animation to serve up their ridiculous take on Amazon CEOs Jeff Bezos’ surprise purchase of The Washington Post. The two-minute cartoon is, well, not the most accurate retelling of the change in ownership.
While NMA makes reference to the Post’s coverage of Watergate and the Pentagon Papers—complete with a cartoon Katharine Graham pummeling President Richard Nixon with the dual headlines—the kind treatment of the great publisher ends there. For the rest of the show, Graham appears inside a coffin, spinning in her grave at the notion of her family ceding control of its newspaper to Bezos. (If it’s worth anything, the Post’s current publisher, Katharine Weymouth, said yesterday that her grandmother would have likely supported the sale.)
As for the Post’s new boss, he is treated as an island dreamer who sees Boston Red Sox owner John Henry’s purchase of The Boston Globe and gets envious, though not before oddly conjuring David Beckham inside a thought bubble. (Who knows?)
Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg show up, too, for some reason. Wrong Facebook money there, NMA.
Oh, and stay tuned for cameos by News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch and his soon-to-be-ex-wife Wendi Deng. Along with another appearance by grave-spinning Kay Graham. Uh… just watch.