The magnate Jeff Bezos has gagged the opinion section of his newspaper Washington Post when he ordered Wednesday that the section publishes from now on columns in support of “ individual freedoms and free market. “
“We are going to write every day in support and defense of Two pillars: Personal freedoms and free markets, “said Bezos, increasingly aligned with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, in a message sent to the newspaper staff.
“We will also cover other issues, of course, but the points of view that oppose these pillars will be left to publish others,” added the founder of Amazon. The Post’s opinion leader, David Shipley, left office due to this decisionBezos reported.
The businessman explained that in the past it made sense that the newspapers brought to their readers an opinion section that covered “all points of view”, but “Today Internet does that job”he said.
Bezos already intervened in the Washington Post during the last electoral campaign when He stopped the newspaper’s decision to support Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and ordered to save the equidistance to the elections. It was the first time in decades that the newspaper of the US capital did not support the Democratic presidential candidate.
The newspaper, which had a very hard editorial line with Trump in his first term (2017-2021), supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, both faced with the Republican tycoon.
Bezos donated $ 1 million for Trump’s investiture And, like the owners of other great technological ones in the country, such as Meta and OpenAi, it was present in the inauguration of the Republican on January 20.
Source: Lasexta
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