According to Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, the publication’s opinion section will be devoted to promoting “personal liberties and free markets,” and articles that disagree with such viewpoints will not be published.
David Shipley, the outlet’s opinion editor, resigned as a result of the change, which represents a significant departure from the section’s extensive coverage of opinions.Amazon’s wealthy founder, Jeff Bezos, posted a note to X and sent it to his employees on Wednesday. Bezos declared, “We will write daily to defend and support two pillars: free markets and individual liberty.
Other subjects would be covered in the opinion section, he noted, but “viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”
“A newspaper, particularly one that was a local monopoly, might have once considered it a service to deliver a broad-based opinion section that aimed to cover all points of view to the reader’s doorstep every morning,” Bezos wrote. “The internet does that job today.
“I asked Mr. Shipley if he wanted to stay at the outlet after the changes, but he said no,” Bezos continued.
“This is a big change; it won’t be simple, and it will take complete dedication. I respect his decision,” Bezos stated.
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