Posted on 02/27/2025 8:00:51 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Current and former Washington Post staffers are rebelling against Jeff Bezos after he announced a “significant” editorial shift that will see the paper’s Opinion section focus almost exclusively on personal liberties and free markets.
In a rare public announcement, Bezos, who owns the Post, on Wednesday shared that the paper’s editorial section would pivot to publish daily opinion stories “in support and defense of” the two “pillars,” emphasizing that while the section’s coverage would also include other subjects, “viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”
While the Post’s reporting is still considered top-notch, the paper itself has hit a series of roadblocks in recent years. Years-long financial woes worsened after readers terminated subscriptions to protest Bezos’ involvement. A new publisher, appointed by Bezos last year, has proven unpopular with the newsroom. And Post staffers themselves have not shied away from voicing their discontent, either resigning or taking jobs with rivals.
Adding friction to the relationship between Bezos and the journalists at his newspaper is the billionaire’s increasingly apparent cozy relationship with President Donald Trump.
Included in the Wednesday announcement was the news that David Shipley, the Opinion section editor, had resigned from his role. Shipley was among the editors who navigated the fallout from Bezos’ disastrous October decision to block a pro-Kamala Harris endorsement that resulted in the paper losing 250,000 subscribers — reportedly over Shipley’s objection.
A shock to the system The Bezos announcement sent shockwaves through the Post, alarming current and former staffers alike.
Marty Baron, the Post’s revered former executive editor under whom the outlet won 11 Pulitzer Prizes, told CNN in a statement that Bezos has ironically undermined personal liberties by “cravenly yielding to a president who shows no respect for liberty,” writing that the billionaire...
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They can be like Don Lemon. He’s really turned his failing career around.
“While the Post’s reporting is still considered top-notch,”
Nope.
I have no training as a journalist which makes me infinitely qualified to replace them. I wonder if Jeffy who give me a job?
Fire them. Replace them with some H-1Bs, or Spanish-speaking Newcomers, or AI.
There is a schiff load of good Journalists very willing to
run that paper fairly and un biased.
I suspect they would be professionals first
and party hacks second!
All talk today.
Let us see some mass resignations.
Protests would be wonderful as well.
Let the “journalists” show their revolutionary spirit!
Lol.
Leftists are revolting. Not really news.
The darkness of the WaPo has only sustained Gerbilists of late.
Let them all go should the WaPo be then able to go towards The Light (for the children, et. al.).
Chitcan the lot of ‘em.
“Don Lemon.”
Didn’t he go back to France?
"You mean we can't continue 'changing the system from within' like our old hippie professors taught us? REEEEEE!"
“”While the Post’s reporting is still considered top-notch””
Drive-By Media considers other Drive-By Media top-notch.
Gee..... What a Surprise!
Put Steve Bannon in charge at the WaPo and see it quickly turn around financially.
Yup—their long march through the institutions just hit a brick wall.
Elon should buy it, fire everyone, dynamite the printing presses, and knock the building to rubble. That would come close to what he’s already done on behalf of free speech.
They do t seem to realize that it’s a buyers market for left wing hacks with the collapse of the legacy media and hundreds of thousands of useless federal employees out there looking for jobs. Bezos is still a big lib, so think these guys are okay if they shut up . If the choose to FA, I think they’re going to FO
I remember the Washington Post.
So the liberals at the Post, take issue with the boss wanting to emphasize certain subjects and not others?
But isn’t that what liberals in the news business do all the time?
Are the so called journalists really that afraid , of other viewpoints or ideas being expressed?
Do they take the position that everything in the Post needs to follow a certain party line? Otherwise it offends their sensibilities?
He seems to be entertaining himself, bless his heart.
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