The free market just got a little more, so today, thanks to the benevolent decree of one of the most rich men who have ever lived.
Seriously, however, an email from Washington Post Owner Jeff Bezos in the staff of the newspaper now says that the quiet part of the voice: the newspaper will no longer bear the opinions that his billionaire supported.
“I am writing to let you know about a change coming to the pages of our opinion,” the email begins. “We will write every day to support the defense of two pillars: personal freedoms and free markets.”
“Of course, of course, too, but the views opposed to these pillars will be left to be published by others,” Bezos continues. “There was a time when a newspaper, especially the one who was a local monopoly, could view it as a service that would bring to the threshold of the reader every morning a widely based opinion section that seeks to cover all views. Today, the Internet is doing the job.”
The brave new pillars come after a 10 percent decline in subscribers from Bezos’ decision not to allow the newspaper to support a presidential candidate who was widely defined as an outrageous example of the media chief who guides his own personal benefit.
To say that this last message is bad, it can be an underestimation. As a result of the mandate of the Freedom of Bezos, WapoOpinter Editor David Shipley announced his resignation.
A number of current and former newspaper officials have condemned the decision, with former executive editor Marty Baron says Daily beast He was “sad and disgusted” in Bezos’ decision to put his business interests on those of independent journalism.
“A mass attack by Jeff Bezos in The Washington PostDivision of Opinions Today, “writes Post Leading economy journal Jeff Stein. “[It] Clear disagreement will not be published or tolerated there. “
Despite the harsh twist, Wapo It has long been seen by media critics because of its screaming conflicts of interest, involved with the billionaire, although this critic is sometimes overshadowed by the newspaper’s Lipservice to unclear progressive ideals.
If there is one thing to praise the technological tycoon, it is that he finally puts his cards on the table.
“I am confident that free markets and personal freedoms are suitable for America,” writes the 3rd most rich person in the world. “I also believe that these perspectives are undervalued in the current market for ideas and news.”
Credit where it is due: it takes a lot of Gall to make this claim as a person whose net value darkens that of most countries, enjoying a personal utopia in a country where billionaires own more than half of the population in combination.
While Bezos’s executive order may seem like a right turn for a major part of the main media, this can be better understood as a “masking” moment, a rare but honest peek behind the curtain. When we look at his moves in context with his fellow captains of the industry, this is not so surprising.
The colleague Traveli Elon Musk, for example, made a large-scale game to secure his own media empire by purchasing an X-formerly-Twitter, a platform that can already bend, as he likes to shape a political landscape without having to falsify impartiality. Mark Zuckerberg also runs a massive social media conglomerate in Meta, which he routinely uses to fulfill democracy for his own profit.
In fact, the majority of news publications in Western society are owned by corporations with profit and billionaires. Away from undervalued, “the foot of the free Bezos market is dominant The point of view in our media and our lives. At least they finally have this.
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