🇺🇸 Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has sent out an email to the newspaper's staff saying that he is going to narrow the focus of its opinion pages to be “in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”
The Washington Post is the third most circulated newspaper in the United States.
He claims in the email that “I am of America and for America. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical [sic] — it drives creativity, invention and prosperity”
He says that “viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others” and asserts that supporters of “free markets and personal liberties… are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion”
The Washington Post’s opinion editor, David Shipley, will be exiting the paper as part of the move.
