...WaPo should expand to a full-fledged video news channel site. Just being a newspaper, even online, is a bit old-fashioned.

It could happen.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

But they'd better do it fast before Elon and Trump decide to quash any deal.
Bezos might not really want the paper but his overlords won't want it in anyone elses hands.

they hire the WaPo staff, buy a building and a lot of equipment...i'm sure you'll tell me too expensive and hard to rebuild all the subscriptions, connections, etc.

But I maintain that a historic newspaper is more than just a building and stuff. It's people: staff and subscribers. And I'm betting the staff don't want to work for a fascist. What if they are given an alternative? Could the new" buyers" hire the people who do subscriptions, advertise as the new WaPo, get MSNBC to help, like they have done with BlueSky?

If they gut WaPo, there might be equipment available at firesale prices? How fast could Jeff hire replacement staff? Maybe quickly if he isn't picky and throws money at it. But who will subscribe? Current subscribers want the historic newspaper; that means its current staff (or maybe it's historic staff, but that contains some of the remaining staff, certainly not the new people Bezos would hire).

We have to be this kind of creative to survive Trump 2.0.
Brilliant that someone is raising money to buy WaPo. But don't take no for an answer. Write them a ransom note. "If you don't sell we will replace you"

Cautiously optimistic that it won't go sideways.