According to the paper’s AI-generated Conversation Summary, “the comments express strong disapproval of The Washington Post's new focus on 'personal liberties and free markets' in its opinion section. Many readers perceive this shift as a move towards right-wing ideology and a departure from the paper's tradition of diverse and critical opinion pieces. There is a widespread sentiment that this change undermines journalistic integrity and stifles free speech, leading numerous subscribers to cancel their subscriptions in protest." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Post owner Bezos announces shift in opinions section > > > > > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/02/26/washington-post-bezos-opinions-section/ > > > > Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said Wednesday that the newspaper’s > opinions section would now be focused on “personal liberties and free > markets” and won’t publish anything that opposes those ideas. With the > shift, opinions editor David Shipley has resigned, and The Post is > searching for a successor. > > > > > > > > > > > > “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two > pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” the billionaire Amazon > founder wrote in an email to Post staffers that he also published on X ( > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/x.com/JeffBezos/status/1894757287052362088__;!!M9LbjjnYNg9jBDflsQ!DKT5R-FUqSie880TrXJHDyxuwOoo8z_RvkFTVQQU3syhgvRQhwviK4VCATUj_p8nzbvyUiVzKrNoN2j-kJ07wm8$ > ). “We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those > pillars will be left to be published by others.” > > > > > > > > > > > > In his memo, Bezos wrote that he offered Shipley a chance to continue in > “this new chapter” but that Shipley instead “decided to step away.” > > > > > > > > > > > > Bezos said that The Post no longer needs to offer a “broad-based opinion > section” because of a diversity of opinions available online. > > > > > > > > > > > > “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,” Bezos wrote. “Today, the internet does that job.” > > > > > > > > > > > > Post publisher and CEO William Lewis told staffers in an email Wednesday > that the change was not about “siding with any political party.” > > > > > > > > > > > > “This is about being crystal clear about what we stand for as a > newspaper,” Lewis wrote. > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35499): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35499 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111403792/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
