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Journalists Melt Down Over Bezos’ New Direction For WaPo Opinion Section

Multiple journalists were outraged after Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announced on Wednesday that the newspaper’s opinion section editor was stepping down as Bezos pushes for more takes defending “personal liberties and free markets.” Bezos told the Post’s staff in an email, “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of …

Multiple journalists were outraged after Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announced on Wednesday that the newspaper’s opinion section editor was stepping down as Bezos pushes for more takes defending “personal liberties and free markets.”

Bezos told the Post’s staff in an email, “We are going to be writing every day in support and 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.”