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Bezos announces change in focus of Wash. Post opinion pages
« on: February 26, 2025, 10:23:23 am »
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I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:

I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.
 
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.

There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.

I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. 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.

I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment —  I respect his decision. We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction.
 
I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void.
 
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Re: Bezos announces change in focus of Wash. Post opinion pages
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2025, 10:25:38 am »
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Editorial page editor of WaPo resigning from role - Bezos steering opinions page in a different direction he says
9:39 AM · Feb 26, 2025

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Here's one reaction to the bezos news from a WaPo columnist...

10:10 AM · Feb 26, 2025

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Re: Bezos announces change in focus of Wash. Post opinion pages
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2025, 10:27:41 am »
WashPoo reporter:  Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section today - makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there ...    *****rollingeyes*****

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1894760153813275124
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Re: Bezos announces change in focus of Wash. Post opinion pages
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2025, 10:31:13 am »
The inmates at the whaapo think they run the asylum.
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Re: Bezos announces change in focus of Wash. Post opinion pages
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2025, 10:34:12 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on February 26, 2025, 10:31:13 am
The inmates at the whaapo think they run the asylum.
They my need to be reminded who has been signing their paychecks.
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Re: Bezos announces change in focus of Wash. Post opinion pages
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2025, 12:16:37 pm »
Bezos is against competition ... Amazon gained market share by engaging in uncompetitive and unfair trade practices to put competitors out of business and to create an oligarch, Bezos.

Billionaires want freedoms and liberties for themselves, but not for the rest of us.

Exercising freedoms and liberties makes the social justice warrior snowflakes lose their lunches.

I was watching re-runs of All In the Family, and I was surprised some of the racial epithets said by Archie Bunker handn't been censored.  He was mostly disparaging Asians and White people, so, maybe that's still okay.


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Re: Bezos announces change in focus of Wash. Post opinion pages
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2025, 01:41:44 pm »
Nolte: WaPo Editor Quits After Bezos Orders Opinion Page to Defend Free Markets, Personal Liberty
 
John Nolte26 Feb 20251,123
 
Washington Post opinion editor David Shipley resigned Tuesday after the paper’s owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced that, going forward, on the opinion pages, “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”


Bezos made the announcement to the Post staff on Tuesday. “We’ll cover other topics too of course,” he added, “but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”


“I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical,” Bezos continued. “And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else.”

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/02/26/nolte-wapo-editor-quits-after-bezos-orders-opinion-page-to-defend-free-markets-personal-liberty/
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Re: Bezos announces change in focus of Wash. Post opinion pages
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2025, 01:45:21 pm »
Yada, yada, yada.  Other media groups have said the same in the past and if was all BS. :xedfingers:
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Re: Bezos announces change in focus of Wash. Post opinion pages
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2025, 01:45:25 pm »
So, the Washington Post is looking to hire a new Editor?

Certainly many new career opportunities early in Trump's term.
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Re: Bezos announces change in focus of Wash. Post opinion pages
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2025, 02:20:15 pm »
I'll believe it when I see it.
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Re: Bezos announces change in focus of Wash. Post opinion pages
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2025, 03:10:58 pm »
That's a shame.
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Washington Post columnist quits after her opinion piece criticizing owner Jeff Bezos is rejected
Associated Press | Monday, March 10, 2025 1:24 p.m.

A columnist who has worked at The Washington Post for four decades resigned Monday after the newspaper’s management decided not to run her commentary critical of owner Jeff Bezos’ new editorial policy.

Ruth Marcus, who has worked at the newspaper since 1984, wrote that “it breaks my heart to conclude that I must leave.” Her resignation letter was first reported by The New York Times.

Her exit is fallout from the billionaire owner’s directive that the Post narrow the topics covered by its opinion section to personal liberties and the free market. The newspaper’s opinions editor, David Shipley, resigned because of the shift, announced two weeks ago.

Marcus said that the Post’s publisher, Will Lewis, declined to publish her column, which she said was “respectfully dissenting” from Bezos’ edict. It was the first time in nearly 20 years of writing columns that she’s had one killed, she said.  ...
https://triblive.com/news/world/washington-post-columnist-quits-after-her-opinion-piece-criticizing-owner-jeff-bezos-is-rejected/
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Re: Bezos announces change in focus of Wash. Post opinion pages
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2025, 03:14:23 pm »
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That's a shame. https://triblive.com/news/world/washington-post-columnist-quits-after-her-opinion-piece-criticizing-owner-jeff-bezos-is-rejected/

The old liberal hag is past retirement age.  Now she can focus on important things.  Start a podcast. Get a job as a paid contributor to MSDNC. Take up knitting.
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