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Washington’s post owner Jeff Bezos overhaining the newspaper’s opinion section to focus farther than two subjects in the US edition pages.
Bezos said the Editor’s office David Shipley chose to stand as a result of shaking the Award winning section, in an email also posted on social media on Wednesday.
Shipley has the option to stay as Editor in section, Bezos said, but the owner of the Amazon has ‘suggested that the answer is not’ hell that should be ‘no.’ After careful consideration, David decided to go away. “
Bezos till the past year looked like a majority owner of the Washington Post, he got in August 2013 for $ 250mm. But his decision to prevent the newspaper from Endorsement of a US presidential candidate Last year evoke a major backlash from readers.
The decision not to run a piece of opinion endorsement Harris, which is drafted by the editorial post writers, seen by media commenters ahead of election – or at least unite in his stakes .
However tech billionaire defended his position to a subsequent editorial. He said that newspaper endorsement is no longer much emphasis, and with “no quid pro quo in any” linked decision.
He added: “I challenge you to find a chance in 11 years in which I win any of the post in favor of my own interest.”
The Intervention of the Washington Post Comment section of the Bezos joining one of the most compressed US newspapers, which his email signed him in the back of the directional change.
“I am america and for America, and is proud like that,” Bezos said. “I am confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe that these views do not care about the current market with ideas and news opinions.”
In a separate employee email, Lewis, appointed editor of Bezos in 2023, said the step “is not part of any political party”.
WASHINGTON POST The journalists responded with anger in action. Jeff Stein, Chief Economics Reporter for newspaper, Social media describes it as a “great deal of Jeff Bezos who cannot be sectioned in Washington Post is not published or allowed there”.
He said it didn’t feel like the “news part of the conquest, but when the bezos tried to intervene on the news that I would stop and let you know”. Elon Musk, posting X, said: “Bravo, @jeffbezos.”
In the employee’s email, Bezos said that the newspaper is to write “every day to support and protect two columns: We will also be held other subjects, but the views of other subjects, but the views opposes columns left to be published to others. “
He said the newspapers “especially a local monopoly, may have seen it as a service to be carriedt in the reaction every morning a wide range of opinion trying to cover all of the offspring -aw. Now, the internet does that job. “