Posted on 02/26/2025 10:12:23 AM PST by JV3MRC
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announced a dramatic ideological shift for his newspaper’s opinion section toward free markets, and staff are predictably having a nervous breakdown over it.
Bezos stated on X that he notified Post staff of significant changes being made to the opinion section: “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” In addition, said Bezos, “We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.” Bezos emphatically stated his confidence 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.”
This is a massive hard-to-starboard maneuver on Bezos’s part, given the life-sucking abyss of monolithic leftist sewage his newspaper’s opinion section has been over the years. It also follows Bezos’s surprising move before the 2024 election to bar his newspaper from making any political endorsements, because, who knew that maintaining neutrality constituted good journalism ethics! MRC Vice President of Research and Publications Brent Baker welcomed the news: "After a dozen years of ownership in which The Washington Post matched the liberal legacy media’s disdain for anyone not liberal, and became less and less relevant, it’s good to see Bezos recognize there’s a big audience out there in favor of basic American values. But it's sad Post journalists see this as an attack on them and not an opportunity."
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Calling a Russ Douthat? Or a Mark Stein?
It’s just a business decision.
WaPo revenues/readers circling the drain, obviously gotta do something to pull eyes back on the print.
Bezos is a lizard like any other capitalist. He doesn’t have any political outlook except “does it make money”.
In capitalism, that’s all you’re supposed to GAF about.
Plenty of other media in which a sinister (as in left-leaning) journalist can join. There has always been tension between editorial and the publishing side. Nothing new.
He needs a Free Traitor voice to prop up Amazon, in case Trump is as anti-China as his first term.
The left likes to talk about how much Musk lost on Twitter, but is silent on how much Bezos has lost on WashPo.
Now write a series of articles exposing Washington Post’s “Watergate” scam, and who was behind the illegitimate plot to take down President Nixon!
Changes being made to the opinion section.
Liberalism can’t take much more of a ass kicking money fading fast.
The horror, the horror. #1
“He doesn’t have any political outlook except “does it make money”.”
That’s why liberal media is failing. They don’t view the news business as a business. It is a tool they think exists to spread the communist messages they learned in college. How many failed “Rush Limbaugh of the left” failed over the decades he was on the air? Where’s Al Franken?
Bezos bought Washington Post as a lobbying firm to enrich his brand to keep the democrats off his ass. Now that MAGA seems to be here to stay he can’t take losing that much money. And seeing the crybabies’ temper tantrums is glorious to behold.
👍 and its rather nice its not a political decision, it protects one from the leftards that were hired& if they dont like it...they can walk👏👏👏
For all we know I would not be surprised IF Bezos also received some money for USAID to compensate for the purchase/loss of the Washington Post.
Back when he bought that rag we all wondered WHY he would do it. Bezos is a pretty smart guy. You do not get to be one of the richest people in the world and buy things that lose money.
The change going forward at the Post might be due to the fact that there will be no more payments coming from USAID or other BLACK revenue sources. So, they need to start publishing the truth.
WPost newsroom: The boss is always right.
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