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Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has announced that the paper’s opinion page will now be "in support and defense of two pillars," personal liberties and free markets, stating, via X, that legacy opinions have become outdated and replaced by the internet. "We'll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others,” he wrote. In his announcement, he said that the changes are based on American principles of freedom. @CNN reports that the Post’s editorial page editor, David Shipley, has left the paper after being offered the opportunity to lead the section. Staffers aren’t pleased with the move, with chief economics reporter Jeff Stein calling it a “massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos” that makes it clear “dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there.”
@Flipboard @CNN Well, to be clear, they will still publish op-eds about *other* things, but just no op-eds that are *counter* to those things.
@jsit Good point — the word "only" there is extraneous. We'll remove!
@Flipboard @CNN Freedom - to buy a newspaper and turn it into a propaganda machine
@Flipboard @CNN
So they can still publish op-eds critical of a government that imposes wide reaching tariffs. Or are tariffs part of the free market, along with bribery.
@Flipboard @CNN Not sure if someone who can't detect irony should work in publishing.