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When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post in 2013, some worried he might meddle in the news operation if it conflicted with his business interests. Nevertheless, given the tough news affecting print journalism — shrinking revenues, depleted staffs, expanding local news deserts, voracious online competitors — there was hope, too. A multibillionaire owner running a prize-winning national newspaper? What could go wrong? In the Post’s case, not much. Until it did. To recap, the Bezos Effect took hold fully when a planned endorsement…