Wash Post Opinion Editor Resigns after Bezos Restricts Opinion Topics - "Democracy Dying in the Light"

[Anonymous]

Bezos has restricted the Post from publishing or writing any political opinions other than two topics going forward: Free Markets and Individual Liberties. All other topics are banned. Shipley, Opinions Editor of Pulitzer-prize winning paper has resigned.

The Washington Post's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, announced a sweeping new libertarian vision for the paper's opinion sections on Wednesday, just four months after his decision to kill a presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris triggered hundreds of thousands of subscribers to cancel.

Post Opinions Editor David Shipley, whom Bezos recruited from Bloomberg Opinions in 2022, chose to resign rather than stay to oversee the paper's revamped sections.

Shock inside the newsroom

At an hour-long meeting with opinion writers, Shipley said he did not know what lay ahead, according to an attendee who spoke on condition of anonymity because they did not have permission to speak publicly.

Shipley said he had wanted a "broader, pluralistic place," but that Bezos sought "a focused [opinion] report."

Bezos justified his decision in the memo to staffers. "I am of America and for America, and proud to be so," he wrote. "And a big part of America's success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else."

The decision sparked fresh shock and dismay at the paper. After senior news editors raised concerns at a meeting Wednesday, Executive Editor Matt Murray reassured them that Bezos had given no indication that he wanted to interfere with news coverage, according to two people with direct knowledge. A spokesperson for the Post confirmed his remarks.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5309725/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion-section
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion-00206330

[Anonymous]

These billionaire men (Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk) have all been appalling during Trump's first month.

Vote all these Republicans out, starting with voting Abigail Spanberger for VA Gov this November in 2025! Punish the GOP for not protecting our freedoms and selling out to the corrupt billionaires who have sold us out to Trump.

[Anonymous]

Immediately unsubscribed.

[Anonymous]

Please start boycotting their businesses if you have not done so already.

You CAN live without Amazon!! there are so many other choices now!! I quit Amazon when Bezos pulled the Harris endorsement, and I quit Whole Foods, and all of his other businesses.

Here's a list of the oligarch's businesses. Please! Boycott them! There are other places to get the same thing, maybe a day or two longer, but if it saves our democracy, isn't it worth it?

Bezos: https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/jeff-bezos-companies/
Musk: https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/elon-musk-companies/
Zuckerberg: https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/mark-zuckerberg-companies/

We are slipping further into oligarchy and authoritarianism every single day.

Do whatever you can to stop it.

[Anonymous]

Dude bought a newspaper to promote Free Markets but ban Free Speech.

[Anonymous]

Where can I read Hax without a WaPo subscription?

[Anonymous]

Glad we unsubscribed in December.

[Anonymous]

Wow, maybe the Post will become readable again.

It's opinion section is generally full of liberal nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dude bought a newspaper to promote Free Markets but ban Free Speech.

exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please start boycotting their businesses if you have not done so already.

You CAN live without Amazon!! there are so many other choices now!! I quit Amazon when Bezos pulled the Harris endorsement, and I quit Whole Foods, and all of his other businesses.

Here's a list of the oligarch's businesses. Please! Boycott them! There are other places to get the same thing, maybe a day or two longer, but if it saves our democracy, isn't it worth it?

Bezos: https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/jeff-bezos-companies/
Musk: https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/elon-musk-companies/
Zuckerberg: https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/mark-zuckerberg-companies/

We are slipping further into oligarchy and authoritarianism every single day.

Do whatever you can to stop it.

+1000

unsubscribe and order directly from brands (not conglomerates like amazon).

[Anonymous]

Adios WaPo!

Onto New Yorker, The Nation, Bullwark and others who still have freedom of the press!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where can I read Hax without a WaPo subscription?

Here are a few:
Florida Times Union
Providence Journal
Knoxville Sentinel
Florida Times Union
El Paso Times
Philadelphia Inquirer
Courier-Journal
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Asbury Park Press
Bergen Record
Indianapolis Star

But if you Google the headline you can usually find it.

[Anonymous]

(But I do miss the chats, I can't find those anywhere else.)

[Anonymous]

The WaPo was lost when he pulled the Harris endorsement. This was coming.

Get your news elsewhere. The WaPo is going to fold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Adios WaPo!

Onto New Yorker, The Nation, Bullwark and others who still have freedom of the press!

While it lasts.

The current administration will shut those down as soon as it can.