The billionaire owner of The Washington Post is directing its opinion section to defend personal liberties and the free market in a shift that prompted the editor of that page to resign.

We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” Bezos wrote in his post, adding that the new topics “are r

The billionaire owner of The Washington Post is directing its opinion section to defend personal liberties and the free market in a shift that prompted the editor of that page

Jeff Bezos is shaking things up at The Washington Post. The Post has always been part of the big-government, left-wing establishment part of our country.

The billionaire owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, narrowed the topics covered by its opinion section Wednesday to defending personal liberties and the free market, a pivot away from its traditional broad focus and prompting the news outlet’s opinion editor to resign.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announced Wednesday that the paper will no longer publish opinion editorials opposing “personal liberties” or “free markets.” This follows some 200,000 digital readers who canceled their subscriptions following the Washington Post’s decision not to offer an endorsement ahead of the 2024 election.

Unless Bezos has unorthodox ideas about what constitutes a free market and personal liberty, the opinion pages of the Post are not likely to lurch into a wholesale embrace of Trump’s interventionist agenda, including trade ideas that totally contradict free market theory.

In a move that should surprise absolutely no one who has observed the growing consolidation of media under billionaire ownership, Jeff Bezos ... interventions in the market, Bezos' fortune would be inconceivable. The mythologized "free market" fails ...

The billionaire owner of the Washington Post announced a revamp of the paper's opinions section that would focus on supporting free markets and personal liberties

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos defended his decision to overhaul the newspaper’s opinion page, insisting there’s nothing “fascist” about advocating for “personal liberties and free markets.” The billionaire Amazon founder faced harsh backlash over last week’s announcement that the Beltway broadsheet’s opinion pages will better reflect American values like “free markets and personal liberties” — a move that led to the resignation of

Seriously though, an email from Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos to the newspaper's staff is now saying the quiet part out loud: the newspaper will no longer tolerate opinions its billionaire backer disproves of.

In a move promoted as supporting freedom of speech, The Washington Post will no longer publish opinion columns that oppose the core views of Post owner and Amazon executive chair Jeff Bezos, Bezos has reportedly told staff.