Jeff Bezos outlines “dramatic changes” to The Washington Post’s opinions section, states The Post
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, reports The Post.
“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. “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.”
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