“I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America,” wrote Bezos.
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Amazon CEO and The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos made a startling announcement on Wednesday: The opinion pages of his newspaper will adopt a new editorial mission of defending “two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”
Hey, that’s our job!
Indeed, if the new WaPo slogan sounds familiar to readers of Reason, that’s because Reason has long described itself as the magazine of “free minds and free markets.” The similarity was not lost on social media users, several of whom noted that Bezos would be bringing WaPo into ideological alignment with an already existing media brand.
WaPo today: pic.twitter.com/yzTlEXPHza
— Ryan Juliano (@rlj_law) February 26, 2025
