The free market got a little more, thanks to the charitable decree with one of the richest men who lived ever.
Seriously, an email message from Washington Post Malik Jeff Bezos told the newspaper’s employees now loudly: The newspaper will not tolerate the opinions that its supporter refutes billionaire.
“I am writing to inform you of the change that comes to the pages of our opinion,” the email begins. “We will write every day every day to support the defense of two years: personal freedoms and free markets.”
“We will cover other topics as well, but the views that oppose these columns will be left to publish by others,” Bezos continues. “There was a time when it was a newspaper, especially those that were a local monopoly, she saw that it was a service to present it to the reader’s threshold every morning, a wide opinion section based on covering all views. Today, the Internet is doing this job.”
The new courageous columns come in the wake of a 10 percent decrease in Bizos’s decision not to allow the newspaper to support a presidential candidate, which was widely encouraged as a terrible example of the media head directing his coverage in his personal interest.
Saying that this last announcement has exceeded badly, it may be underestimated. As a result of delegating the freedom of Bezos, And AbuThe opinion editor, David Shipply, announced his resignation.
A number of current and former employees condemned the decision, as the former CEO Marti Baron told Daily monster He was “sad and disgusting” in Bizus’s decision to put his commercial interests on the interests of the independent press.
“The massive infringement by Jeff Bizos in Washington PostToday’s opinion section, “Books Pillars Economic journalist Jeff Stein leadership. “[It] Clear opposition views will not be published or tolerance there. “
Despite the harsh reaction, And Abu For a long time, the media critics have been looking for because of its blatant conflict in the interests associated with the participation of the billionaire, although this criticism has sometimes overwhelmed him through the sponsors of the newspaper to mysteriously upper ideals.
If there is one thing that praises the technology pole, it finally puts its cards on the table.
“I am sure that free markets and personal freedoms are suitable for America,” wrote the third richest man in the world. “I also think these views are deprived of the current market of ideas and news.”
The credit for the place where it is worth: it takes a lot of bitterness to make this claim as a man outperforming his clear wealth in most countries, and enjoys the personal utopia in a country owned by billionaires more than half of the population combined.
While Bezos’s executive may seem like a right turn to get an essential component of the prevailing media, it may be better to understand it as a “mask” moment, a rare but sincere view behind the curtain. When we look at his movements in the context with his colleagues in industry, this is not very surprising.
For example, his teammate Travler El Musk played a huge game to secure his own media empire by buying X-Formerly-Twitter, a platform that he can now bend because he loves to form a political scene, without the need to increase neutrality. Likewise, Mark Zuckerberg forms a huge group of social media in Meta, which he routinely uses to rid democracy to achieve its own gains.
In fact, the vast majority of news in Western society is owned by companies and billionaires for profit. Away from services, “Free Market Pillar” Bezos Hu dominant Point of our media and our lives. At least they finally own.
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