Thursday, February 27, 2025

Bezos says WaPo Opinion Section will Focus on 'personal liberties and free markets'

Opinion Editor David Shipley decided to "step away" after Bezos offered him the chance to continue in his role but under this new editorial focus.

Posted by retort at 09:56 AM | 19 COMMENTS | permalink

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Breaking News: The Washington Post's opinion editor is leaving as the newspaper's owner, Jeff Bezos, focuses the section on "personal liberties and free markets."

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) February 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM

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Pretty much what it does now...

#1 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-02-27 10:06 AM

" Pretty much what it does now...

#1 | POSTED BY RIGHTISTRITE AT 2025-02-27 10:06 AM | FLAG: "

Uh huh. That certainly explains the editor resigning and teeth gnashing by s9me on the left

#2 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-27 11:50 AM

An advertising conglomerate stopped advertising on X

Elon and Jim Jordan threatened to stop a planned merger by said advertising conglomerate.

Said advertising conglomerate returned to advertising on X.

We have arrived at authoritarianism.

#3 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-02-27 11:52 AM

The Washington Post support Personal Liberties*

*offer not valid for the opinion editor of the Washington Post

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-02-27 12:58 PM


An advertising conglomerate stopped advertising on X
Elon and Jim Jordan threatened to stop a planned merger by said advertising conglomerate.
Said advertising conglomerate returned to advertising on X.
We have arrived at authoritarianism.
#3 | POSTED BY TRUTHNLIES

Here's a 100% hypothetical scenario: Say a Big Tech CEO calls up a big ad agency and tells them it'd be a good idea to spend more money with his company. Because if they don't, he knows people in the US government ...

I know, I know. That would never happen.

Except that maybe it has been happening. And the person who is allegedly sending that message is Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X.
www.businessinsider.com

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-27 01:06 PM


Uh huh. That certainly explains the editor resigning and teeth gnashing by s9me on the left
#2 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Strange.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-27 01:07 PM

Nothing says LIBERTY like being forced to praise a dictator and his policies.

#7 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-02-27 01:15 PM

Uh huh. That certainly explains the editor resigning and teeth gnashing by s9me on the left

#2 | Posted by BellRinger

Instead of being bothered by the rise of corpo fascist authoritarianism, you mock the people who are bothered by it.

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-02-27 01:16 PM

Personal liberties and free markets are corpo-fascism?

Wow. The real question is will Bezos make good on this change. I have serious doubts.

#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-27 01:29 PM

Personal liberties and free markets are corpo-fascism?

Wow. The real question is will Bezos make good on this change. I have serious doubts.

#9 | Posted by BellRinger

Newspaper owners censoring reporters to please a dictator is corpo fascism.

Is that good in your view? Does russia do things the right way?

#10 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-02-27 01:33 PM

"Personal liberties and free markets are corpo-fascism?"

Is he figuring it out? Not really?
Fret not, there's always the third Trump Administration for him to figure it out.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-02-27 01:34 PM

" Newspaper owners censoring reporters to please a dictator is corpo fascism.

Is that good in your view? Does russia do things the right way?

#10 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY AT 2025-02-27 01:33 PM | FLAG: "

Bezos owns the most paper and is bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars. Apparently being a propaganda outlet for the left is a losing business model so he seems to think that all editorials need to be underscore by personal liberties and the free market. I think he's correct but I also suspect this is just lip service. As the owner of the paper he has the right to take it in a different direction as the currrent model isn't working.

#12 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-27 03:09 PM

"bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars."

Relatively, that loss is equivalent to if you or I lost the McDonald's 50c off coupon between the seat and the center console.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-02-27 03:12 PM

"the currrent model isn't working."

That's why Bezos stopped them from endorsing Presidential candidates. That was four months ago. How has that impacted the bottom line?

"The Washington Post is laying off nearly 100 workers, or 4% of its staff, in an attempt to stem growing losses."
Jan 4, 2025

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-02-27 03:16 PM

Bezos owns the most paper and is bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars. Apparently being a propaganda outlet for the left is a losing business model so he seems to think that all editorials need to be underscore by personal liberties and the free market. I think he's correct but I also suspect this is just lip service. As the owner of the paper he has the right to take it in a different direction as the currrent model isn't working.

#12 | Posted by BellRinger

Way to re-write history.

The bleeding started when he blocked the paper from endorsing a Democrat candidate.

#15 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-02-27 04:23 PM

Lovely code words for "kowtow to MAGA" from Bezos.
He knows what side of his toast is being taxcut.

#16 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-02-27 04:34 PM

#15. They were hemmorrhaging before that. But you inadvertently raise a good point. I significant portion of the paper's subscriber base fully expected them to be absolute shills for the Democratic Party that when the decision was made not to endorse either candidate that was still a mortal sin.

#17 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-27 05:28 PM

Bezos owns the most paper and is bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars.

It's bleeding $$$ because of the prostrated position he takes on all things magat.

This move signals it's becoming a propaganda arm of the oligarchs and will not improve it's financial outlook.

I think he's correct.

As the owner of the paper he has the right to take it in a different direction as the currrent model isn't working.

No pearl clutching over "censorship" here. Jeffs double standard on full display.

#18 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-02-27 05:33 PM

Bezos owns the most paper and is bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars. Apparently being a propaganda outlet for the left
#12 | Posted by BellRinger

...evidence?

Did WAPO do something like intentionally lie to their audience about imaginary election fraud like most of the right wing media did?

#19 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-02-27 05:50 PM

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