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

Thursday, February 27, 2025

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.

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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 | Reply

" 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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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

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

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

"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 | Reply

" 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 | Reply

"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 | Reply

"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 | Reply

#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

I have exercised my personal liberty to divorce myself from WaPo and Amazon and invite any and all to do likewise.

#20 | Posted by morris at 2025-02-27 06:32 PM | Reply

"Personal liberties and free markets" / "Don't tread on me" (aka libertarianism) in the 80s was euphemistic for dope-smoking Republicans.

It's become more serious that that.

#21 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-27 09:22 PM | Reply

" No pearl clutching over "censorship" here. Jeffs double standard on full display.
#18 | POSTED BY NIXON AT 2025-02-27 05:33 PM | FLAG: "

This is not censorship.

#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-27 09:44 PM | Reply

" Did WAPO do something like intentionally lie to their audience"

Yes. Much of Russsiagate. Biden's obvious physical and cognitive issues.

#23 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-27 09:47 PM | Reply

The bleeding started when he blocked the paper from endorsing a Democrat candidate.
#15 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT

You mean the readers couldn't make up their own minds?

Imagine dropping a paper because they didn't "support" anyone.

You gotta be pretty brainwashed to do that psSyco.

#24 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-27 09:57 PM | Reply

. Much of Russsiagate. Biden's obvious physical and cognitive issues.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-27 09:47 PM | Reply

Still spreading the same balderdash I see. Not surprisingly however.

#25 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-27 09:58 PM | Reply

"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

So is half the country, whats your point?

#26 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-27 09:58 PM | Reply

Personal liberties and free markets were fundamentally how America was founded culturally and politically. Then Democrats strangely made weirdness, open borders, tolerance for crime, crime run wild, media bias, entangling alliances, arbitrary gender selection and allowing men in womens personal areas and men competing with women in sports. The Democrats left America.

#27 | Posted by Robson at 2025-02-28 08:01 AM | Reply

#27 | Posted by Robson

What I need is a list of five achievements you accomplished last week.

Wiping your ass does not count.

#28 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-28 08:22 AM | Reply

" Did WAPO do something like intentionally lie to their audience"

Yes. Much of Russsiagate. Biden's obvious physical and cognitive issues.

#23 | Posted by BellRinger

1. Russiagate was not a lie.

2. Russiagate was not a coup attempt.

3. Biden's slowdown was not a coup attempt.

Try again. When have liberal establishment media intentionally lied to their viewers about something so significant that it destroys faith in american democracy?

#29 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-02-28 01:11 PM | Reply

Personal liberties and free markets were fundamentally how America was founded culturally and politically.

#27 | Posted by Robson

I'm sure the slaves would agree.

#30 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-02-28 01:12 PM | Reply

"So is half the country, whats your point?"

Trump is crashing the economy, is the point of the Trump administration.

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-02-28 01:15 PM | Reply

"Yes. Much of Russsiagate."

Hey -------, I've linked The Rubio Report several times. You don't get that talking point lie any more.

But it's rich, isn't it? Republicans ADMITTED there were over 100 contacts between Team Trump and the Russians. And here you are, denying what Republicans admitted..

"More water, Gunga Bell!"

#32 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-02-28 01:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Ballwasher the FAGAT can't get enough of Fat Donnie Loser's ass.

---- off you pathetic clown.

#33 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-28 09:21 PM | Reply