Billionaire owner of Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, He narrowed the topics covered by the review section on Wednesday to defend personal freedoms and free market, which is a departure from the customary broad focus and prompted the editor of the opinion of the message to resign.
Bezos, who is also the founder and the largest individual shareholder Amazon, said on x These “points of view opposing these pillars will be published by others.”
The transfer was adopted by some as an indication that Bezos makes decisions regarding the current information store with a view to avoiding retaliation by President Donald Trump. However, Bezos threw a change as a modernization from the times when newspapers offered opinions on a wide range of topics. Now he said: “The Internet is doing this work.”
“We will write every day, supporting two pillars: personal freedoms and free markets,” he wrote Bezos in his post, adding that recent topics “are suitable for America. I also believe that these points of view are underestimated on the current market of ideas and opinions.
“I suggested that if the answer was not” hell yes “, it had to be” no “. After careful consideration, David decided to leave, “Bezos wrote.
Pivot resembles the Wall Street Journal editorial banner: “Free Markets, Free People”.
Many changes have come to the position recently
The transfer on Wednesday was the latest in a series of Bezos in Legacy News Outlet, an award -winning organization that broke the Watergate scandal, and the motto is: “Democracy dies in the murky.”
A few weeks before the November elections, Bezos announced that the position would not support the presidential candidate, causing a wave of resignation and thousands of subscriptions. Post editorial staff was prepared to support the democrat of Kamali Harris before the publisher Will Will Lewis wrote instead that readers would be better to come up with their own minds. Bezos defended this decision, saying “Note from our owner” These editorial recommendations create a perception of bias in the time that many Americans do not believe in the media and do nothing to tip the election scales.
In January Cartonist Ann Telnaes is giving up After the editor rejected his sketch of Bezos and other media management, which bow to Trump – after the Washington Post editor was seen with other managers at Trump’s Florida Club MAR-A-LAG.
In June last year Sally Buzbee gave up As an editor -in -chief instead of directing a new department as part of the Newsroom division plan into three separate divisions. The hurriedly announced restructuring was aimed at stopping the exodus of readers in recent years. The new plan included a new division devoted to attracting consumers by innovative use of social media, video, artificial intelligence and sales.
The reaction appeared quickly
Some of Trump’s best allies wrote on Twitter their support for the Bezos movement.
“Bravo, @jeffbezos!” Was entered by a billionaire colleague Elon Musk. He added conservative commentator Charlie Kirk: “Okay! Culture changes quickly for the better. “
Opponents of Bezos said that it was proof that Bezos moved the mouth towards Trump and the interests of billionaires.
“This is what the property of the oligarch media looks like,” Senator Bernie Sanders, D-VT., Published on X, Musk Platform “The second best guy in the world, Bezos, is the owner of Washington Post. He has now stated that the editorial side of this paper goes straight into the right. Surprise, surprise, Mr. Musk will agree. We must support independent media. “
Marty Baron, predecessor of Buzbee in the newspaper, said Daily Beast in the comments published on Wednesday that “I have no doubt” that the Bezos prioritized his business interests in Washington Post.
Bezos bought a Broadsheet sheet and other newspapers in 2013 for $ 250 million in an unexpected movement perceived as an internet demonstration created winners and losers and transformed the media landscape.
The narrowing of topics will be obvious. On the main page of the post on Wednesday afternoon, the headlines connecting with the opinion materials included “Your shower lies you” and “What we learned about politics, talking about … wolves”.
