The paper’s billionaire owner has said its opinion pages will in future support and defend ‘two pillars: personal liberties and free markets’
The Washington Post: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who owns the newspaper, has announced a change of direction on its opinion pages.
Last year things started to change. A new senior editorial team was installed. For the first time, Bezos intervened directly in editorial decisions toOn Wednesday, Bezos announced a change of direction on the Post’s opinion pages, which would henceforth “be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.
You could also argue that the whole idea of an opinion page requires some radical rethinking in the internet age. Unlike on this side of the Atlantic, opinion writing in American newspapers is separated from the rest of the operation andAnyway, Bezos’s announcement has nothing to do with any of that. This is a sacrificial offering to the man living down the road from the newspaper’s K Street offices, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The sad, brutal truth is that, in such calculations, a once-great newspaper is a makeweight that barely matters at all. You could say it’s dying in darkness.
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