Bezos Pushes Washington Post Opinion Page To Support Free Markets
**Bezos Pushes Washington Post Opinion Page To Support Free Markets**
By Martin Peers
a day ago
Source: The Information
Jeff Bezos has ordered a revamping of the Washington Post's opinion pages to write "in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets." Viewpoints opposing those pillars won't be published, he said in a post on X on Wednesday morning.
As a result of the switch, the Post's opinion editor David Shipley is leaving. Bezos said in the X post that he had offered Shipley, who joined the Post from Bloomberg in 2022, the chance to stay on. But Bezos told Shipley "if the answer wasn't 'hell yes,' then it had to be 'no.'"
The pillars Bezos outlined are similar to the longstanding "free peoples, free markets" principles of the Wall Street Journal's opinion page. Bezos said in his post he believes "these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion."