There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views.
This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment – I respect his decision,” he wrote, adding that the paper is now “searching for a new opinion editor to own this new direction”.
Jeff Bezos, the self-proclaimed “hands-off” owner of the Washington Post, emailed staffers this morning about a change he’s applying to the paper’s opinion section.
Amazon executive and newspaper owner says in letter that ‘viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others’.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” Bezos said.
