Washington Post Reporters Melt Down as Editor Quits After Jeff Bezos Makes Hard Pivot Towards “Personal Liberties, Free Markets”

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announced on Wednesday morning that the Post’s opinion pages will be “writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” in addition to the standard fare.

As Bezos explains on X;

“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. Today, the internet does that job.

I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And 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.”

What’s more, Washington Post opinion editor David Shipley – formerly of The New Republic as well as Bloomberg’s editorial section, quit the paper rather than present a more balanced view.

I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:

I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.

We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too…

— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) February 26, 2025

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