Washington Post Opinion Editor Exits as Bezos Steers Pages in New Direction
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Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, said that the newspaper’s opinion section would focus on “personal liberties and free markets.”

The Washington Post’s opinion editor, David Shipley, is exiting as the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, steers the section in a libertarian direction.

In an email to The Post’s employees on Wednesday, Mr. Bezos said that Mr. Shipley was stepping down amid a narrowing of the opinion section’s focus to defend “personal liberties and free markets.”

“I am of America and for America, and proud to be so,” Mr. Bezos said. “Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical; it drives creativity, invention and prosperity.”

In his note, Mr. Bezos said that he asked Mr. Shipley whether he wanted to stay at The Post, and Mr. Shipley declined.

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  • @[email protected]English
    16•15 hours ago

    Every corporate media conglomerate is a shill for capitalism and the state.

    Yes. Literally all of them. They won’t show you news or opinion that clashes with the views of their shareholders.

    If you want real news. Stop consuming corporate media.

    • @Magister
      10•14 hours ago

      And consume what? alternative media? I can tell you in Canada, Facebook is pretty popular, especially for X/Y gen, and in Canada meta does not publish any news from corporate media (newspapers, news tv channel, etc) but only from “alt media” and it’s full of conspiracies, fake news, far-right propaganda, and things like this. Facebook is a cancer to information in Canada. I still trust CBC/SRC and some Canadian corporate media even knowing it may be editorialized like LCN/JdM.