Posted on 03/04/2025 8:58:35 AM PST by John Semmens
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos' explained his decision to have his paper's editorial pages "shift toward defending the two pillars of a free society: personal liberties and free markets," saying "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'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 to fill that void."
Opinion Editor David Shipley chose to resign rather than embrace his boss' "turn away from progressive values. Free markets and free speech are the values this newspaper has opposed during the time I've worked here and the many decades before I got here. The essence of progressivism is that freedom allows the strong to dominate the weak. That's why the government must play a larger role in controlling society. This includes making decisions for the vast majority of people incompetent to make them for themselves, redistributing the wealth from those who have created it to those who need it, and promoting collective unity over selfish individualism. Since I can no longer support the progressive cause here I need to move on to a job where I can."
Other Post staffers expressed their "outrage at this vicious right turn toward fascism. We agree with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen that freedom of speech is a virus! And censorship is a vaccine immunizing society against unacceptable information. That is what we have been doing at the Post and will continue to do whenever we can when Bezos isn't paying attention."
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
War is Peace.
Censorship is Free Speech.......................
The post loses big money every year and the only thing that keeps it afloat is Bezos desire to have a mouthpiece. It’s amazing to me that anyone who works there believes he has value beyond writing what pleases Bezos.
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