Since one of the richest men in the world recently decided to gut the Washington Post, firing a third of its journalists not long after it instituted buyouts that had already slashed jobs, it’s time to compare the current newspaper owner to the greatest newspaper mogul in cinema history.

Here’s a clip from “Citizen Kane”:

Let’s go point by point. First, of course, is that while Charles Foster Kane actually works in a newsroom, Jeff Bezos did not interfere when he first bought the Post for $250 million, essentially the change in his couch, since his net worth today is $219 billion. Since we regularly compare what billionaires pay out of pocket to what the equivalent amount of money would be for a median income Kentucky family, now at $64,500, that would come to less than $75, close to what it costs to fill a tank of gas for an SUV.

Let’s go on.

The “GALLEONS OF SPAIN OFF JERSEY COAST!” headline represents the newspaper wars at the end of the 19th century, when William Randolph Hearst, the owner of the New York Journal fought a circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and saw the Spanish American War as a way to sell papers. History shows the hype was unmerited, so essentially both publishers were conning their readers.

The “equivalent” for Citizen Bezos was when The Washington Post and The Guardian jointly won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their reporting on the National Security Agency’s vast global surveillance programs. This, unlike the 1898 war, was, and continues to be, a threat to individuals, as is shown by the current surveillance tactics used by Homeland Security and ICE goons to impinge on individual freedom. Unlike the Spanish American War, this was not fake news. And it must be noted that unlike Kane, Bezos never steered coverage.

Kane admits was expelled from college. Bezos is a Princeton graduate.

Kane’s former guardian, Walter Parks Thatcher, notes Charles is a major shareholder in the “public transit company.” Yet Kane’s newspaper is on a crusade against that company, a direct threat to his holdings. Kane doesn’t care.

Citizen Bezos’s financial interest isn’t in the newspaper, but in his electronic retailer Amazon and Blue Origin, his space exploration company. The Post never detailed investigations into Bezos’s holdings, because he wouldn’t have allowed it. In fact, other news organizations reported that Amazon wasn’t letting workers go to the bathroom.

Kane’s justification for his attack on the public transit company (literally against himself) is because he has money and property and is protecting “decent, hardworking people” from “money mad pirates” (billionaires didn’t exist back then).

Bezos is a money mad pirate, buying a super yacht with a statue of his soon-to-be wife on the prow and taking over an Italian island for his wedding to said woman.

And finally, we get to Kane’s finances. Thatcher points out that Kane’s newspaper is losing a $1 million a year. Kane says he knows he’s lost a million this year, will lose a million next year and probably lose another million the year after that. At that rate, he’ll “have to close this place in 60 years.”

So Kane’s net worth is $60 million in the 1890s. That translates to about $2.1 billion in today’s dollars. One million dollars in the 1890s is about $39 million today.

One of the specious arguments Bezos’s Washington Post flunkies made for the recent mass firings was the paper was losing $100 million a year, which was unacceptable to the world’s fifth-richest man. Using Kane mathematics. At the rate on $100 million a year, given Bezos’s $219 billion fortune, he would run out of money in 2,190 years.

Kane is a power hungry millionaire who uses his media holdings to afflict the wealthy. He’s also an egomaniac and a narcissist who will throw away money to protect the public interest (as long as they serve his interests).

Bezos is a greedy billionaire who has put his money behind a flatulent, rapist, racist wannabe dictator who wants to destroy the American Dream so both of them can make even more money.

Charles Foster Kane, considered one of cinemas biggest assholes, is a better human than Jeff Bezos.