Bezos announced restrictions on the pages of the Washington Post
« We will write every day to support and defend two pillars: personal freedoms and free market, » wrote Bezos on the social network X. « Of course we will also focus on other topics, but we will let others publish others, » he added.
A step, which, according to AFP, represents a significant departure from the present way of presenting journalistic views in the diary and other traditional media around the world, comes at a time when the American media is facing growing pressure on its independence and facing charges of bias by President Donald Trump.
In October, Bezos caused controversy by blocking the planned editorial statement of the support of the then democratic vice president Kamala Harris for the presidential elections in 2024.
In January, the well -known political cartoonist Ann Telnaes gave testimony after the leader of the daily refused to publish her cartoon depicting the bezos of crawling before Trump. The editor -in -chief of the Opinion section David Shipley defended the decision by making it to prevent repeated information on the same topic.
On Wednesday, Bezos announced that Shipley is leaving his office because he disagrees with the new editorial policy on the site's opinion.
« Jeff Bezos today massively intervened in the opinion section of The Washington Post – it makes it clear that disapproving views will not be published or tolerated there, » said Jeff Stein, the main economic newsletter of the list. At the same time, he threatened with « immediate departure » if Bezos interferes with the news part of the diary.
The owner of Amazon and the third richest man in the world Bezos, along with other American technology magnates, has become more and more closely close to Trump since his last year's election by the US President. He belonged to a group of technology billionaires who got to the top in Trump's inauguration. Between Trump's election to the January entry into the Office of the Republican, he visited Mar-A-Lago at his headquarters.
In his present post, Bezos argues that The Washington Post does not have to provide opposite views because « this work does the Internet ».
