Jeff Bezos Announces That Washington Post Opinions Will Now Exclusively Celebrate the Glories of Capitalism

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Jeff Bezos Announces That Washington Post Opinions Will Now Exclusively Celebrate the Glories of Capitalism

The free market just got a little more so today, thanks to the benevolent decree of one of the richest men who’s ever lived.

Seriously though, an

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from Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos to the newspaper’s staff is now saying the quiet part out loud: the newspaper will no longer tolerate opinions its billionaire backer disproves of.

“I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages,” the email begins. “We are going to be writing every day in support of defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”

“We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others,” Bezos continues. “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.”

The brave new pillars come in the aftermath of a 10 percent drop in subscribers from Bezos’ decision not to let the paper

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, which was widely decried as an egregious example of a media boss steering its coverage for his own personal benefit.

To say this latest announcement went over poorly might be an understatement. As a result of Bezos’ mandate of freedom, WaPo’s opinion editor, David Shipley,

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A number of the paper’s current and former employees

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the decision, with former executive editor Marty Baron

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he was “sad and disgusted” at Bezos’ decision to put his business interests over those of independent journalism.

“Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section today,” wrote the Post’s lead economics journalist

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. “[It] makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there.”

Despite harsh backlash, WaPo has long been eyed by media critics for its

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tied to the billionaire’s involvement, though that criticism has sometimes been overshadowed by the newspaper’s lipservice to

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If there’s one thing to praise the tech mogul for, its that he’s finally putting his cards on the table.

“I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America,” wrote the

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in the world. “I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion.”

Credit where it’s due: it takes a lot of gall to make that claim as a man whose net worth eclipses that of

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, enjoying a

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in a country where billionaires own

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combined.

While Bezos’ executive order may seem like a right turn for a staple of mainstream media, it might be better understood as a “mask off” moment, a rare but honest peek

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. When we look at his moves in context with his

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, it’s not so surprising.

Fellow travler Elon Musk, for example, made a massive play to secure his own

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by purchasing X-formerly-

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, a platform he can now

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to shape the political landscape, with no need to fake impartiality. Mark Zuckerberg likewise helms a massive

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in Meta, which he routinely uses to flout democracy for his own gain.

In reality, the

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of news outlets in western society are owned by for-profit corporations and

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. Far from underserved, Bezos’ “free market pillar” is the dominant viewpoint in our media and our lives. At least they’re finally owning up to it.

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