Jeff Bezos extends additional Washington Post Opinion pages

Jeff Bezos exercised more influence on the content of WASHINGTON POST Opinion pages, as he announced Wednesday that its editants today focus on “Defense of two pillars: personal liberation and free market.”

But Bezos also explained that alternative perspectives cannot be found on the pages.

“We will also cover other subjects, but views of opposition to the pillars leave others,” Bezos wrote to a memo of staff this morning.

Bezos also wrote David Shipley, the opinion editor, left the publication.

Bezos wrote, “I offered David Shipley, which I admire, opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested that if the answer is not ‘hell yes,’ no. ‘No.’ After careful consideration, David decided to go away. This is an important transition, it is not easy, and it will require 100% assurance – I respect a new opinion editor in its own new direction. ”

Bezos owned the place Since 2013, and during the first term of Trump, he was a constant target of the President. As the place Trump’s administration reported critical, he threatened Amazon ‘Amazon of Bezos, and the company accused his attacks on a useful government contract.

At this time, Bezos was admirable to the President, who attended his inauguration. Amazon has also contributed to the $ 1 million in Trump’s inaugural fund. Before Election, Bezos also set up Kibosh on the editorial page planning the endorsement of the leader’s race, because Trump was likely to return, Kamala Harris returned.

In 2023, the Pra pripe-era Federal Commissiony Commissionys General made Amazon for antitrust breaches. A test was scheduled for October 2026.

Bezos’s action as suggesting that, such as dealing with antitrust litigation, the place The editorial pages can promote for less intervention and government regulation.

Bezos wrote on his note, “We will write daily support and protect two pillars: personal liberty and free markets. We will also cover other subjects, but the views that are controlled to the columns to publish others.

“There is a time when a newspaper, especially a local monopoly, may have seen it as a service to the reactions to the reactions each morning a wide range of opinion that seeks to cover all views. Now, the internet makes that job.

“I am america and for America, and is proud of it. Our country has not reached it by routine. And a great part of the success of America – it is freedom.

Bezos’s notice is only available on opinion pages, not the news. But it gets a newsroom concerns.

Jeff Stein, Chief Economics Reporter for placewrote X, “Jeff Bezos’s a lot of catching The Washington PostThe section of the opinion today – makes clear opposition of views cannot be published or allowed to have my journalism in my journalism in my journalism in the news I have stopped with the news stopping me and let you know. “

Bezos’s action follows another billionaire owner in a publicly placed, Patrick Soon-Shiingowns the Times of Los Angeles. He also looks for more control over the publications’ opinion pages, which leads to the editorial editor resignation as well as others.

each The everyday beastHISTORY WASHINGTON POST Executive Editor Martin Baron strictly criticizes Bezos’s action as one to focus on the pages of the opinion of what he does. “

“Bezos did the personal liberation of a diservice by bringing a president of disrespect – one that seeks the power of the government, especially in the wins, Amazon (the source of his lifetime. His lifetime exploration). He proclaimed commercial interests in the post, and he was thrown into the long-term principles of the post. “