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Jeff Bezos, owner of Washington Post, is overhauling the newspaper’s opinion department to focus two more issues – personal freedom and free markets – in one of the most far -reaching interventions in the editorial pages by Technical Billionaire in the United States.
Bezos said the opinion editor David Shipley chose to stand as a result of the jerk of the award department through an email posted on social media on Wednesday.
Bezos said that Shipley’s section was the editor of this section, but the founder of Amazon said to him that if the answer was’ no ‘yes’, then it had to be’ no ‘. After caution, David decided to move away. “
Bezos was seen as the owner of most of the Washington Post until last year, which he earned for $ 250 million in August 2013. However, his decision to prevent the newspaper A US President is supporting the candidate Last year created a big reaction from readers.
The editorial authors of the post decided not to break the opinion of the drafted orange Harris aspired by the media commentators as trying to stay with Donald Trump before the election – or at least heded his bat.
However, Tech Billionaire defended his position in the next editorial. He said that the newspaper approval could no longer carry too much weight and there was no “Pro Pro” associated with the decision.
He added: “I challenge you to find an example in that 11 year where I won on someone in the post in favor of my own interests. It didn’t. “
The intervention in the Washington Post’s comment section has identified a turning point in the United States, one of the most popular newspapers in the United States, indicating that he was behind the change in direction.
Bezos said “I’m proud to be for America and America and to be it.” “I am confident that free market and personal freedom are right for America. I also believe that these views are underover in the current market of current ideas and news views. “
Through a separate email of the staff, in 2021, Bezos, appointed by Bezos, said that the move was “not about fighting a political party”.
Washington Post Journalists responded to anger at this move. Jeff Steyn, the Chief Economics Reporter of the newspaper, describes it on social media that “today’s Washington Post’s views department has a huge occupation by Jeff Bezos – clear disagreement will not be expressed”.
He said that “it was not felt on the coverage news side, if Bezos tried to interfere with the news, I would quit immediately and let you know”. Posting on X, Elon Kasturi said: “Bravo, @Jeffbazos.”
In the employee’s email, Bezos said that the newspaper would “support two pillars and defense: Personal freedom and free markets.
He said that the newspapers “was especially a local exclusive, it was probably seen as a service to the reader’s doorstep every morning that a broad -based opinion section that tried to cover all opinions. Today, the Internet does that.”
