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The owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, was criticized by liberal commentators after his Wednesday announcement of important changes in the opinion section of the document, and the critics accused him of tilting his knee to President Donald Trump.
David Remnick, from the New Yorker, joined “Morning Joe” of MSNBC on Thursday to discuss the position and said: “This is a terrible tragedy. This is the document of the Pentagon and Watergate documents and much more.”
“And Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for half the price of his boat, and has treated him as a rubber boat, and is a terrible tragedy,” Remnick continued. He argued that Bezos was “raising his hands and kissing the ring of the president of the United States,” for fear of the president “, which behaves as an incipient authoritarian.”
Bezos announced in On Wednesday that the publication page of the publication would be completely renewed, focusing on “writing every day on the support and defense of two pillars: personal freedoms and free markets.” The newspaper’s opinion editor, David Shipley, also resigned.
The owner of the billionaire Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, announces new changes in the subsequent opinion section. ((Photo of Karwai Tang/Wireimage) Eric Baradat/AFP through Getty Images)
The editor and CEO of the post, William Lewis, also issued a statement about the changes on Wednesday, saying: “It is not about being on the side of any political party. It is about being clear what we defend as a newspaper. Doing this is a fundamental part of serving as a first -level news post throughout the United States and for all Americans.”
The publication was criticized after Bezos prevented the publishing page from supporting former vice president Kamala Harris in 2024 about Trump, which led several employees to leave the newspaper. The newspaper supported former President Biden in 2020 and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Ex Washington Post Marty Barón editor He also criticized the publication during a conversation on Wednesday “Morning Joe”, when host Joe Scarborough asked him to talk about the shake, which he was shocking.
“I am in favor of free expression. You know, he is there on the first amendment. And news organizations have always honored free expression by having a variety of views on their opinion pages.” Baron said.
“But Bezos is now just closing that. And he says that only his point of view will be represented in those pages. And that is really a betrayal of the inheritance of Washington Post. And I think a betrayal of the idea of free expression,” he added.
The Washington Post building in DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
The founder of Axios, Jim Vandehei, told “Morning Joe” that Bezos was among the multiple owners of media companies that were “Buckling.”
“I am surprised that I have not closed the opinion page,” Vandehei told MSNBC. “Put all your money to inform if you want to be the ‘Document for the entire United States’, which is the way you have been describing it. You probably need many reporters in the United States to do the job. And the idea of, of type, replicating the Wall Street Journal or the economist and then also saying:” Hey, if you do not agree with our opinion, there is no way to go in the pages. “
Abby Phillip de CNN had two panelists during his program on Wednesday night, who said that Bezos’ announcement was only part of the problem.
“Now I use the hashtags #broken Times and #brokenPost. The headlines in both documents, I think, are constantly turned off, constantly trying to put on the soft pedal what is happening,” said Jeff Jarvis, professor at Stony Brook University.
“We are in the midst of a totalitarian fascist coup in this country. And when we do not call it that, when we do it soft, when we do not have a real discussion about it, at least here I can say those words, we can have that discussion, but you will not see those words in the New York Times or the Washington Post,” he continued.
Another panelist, Touroé, an author of replacement, agreed and added: “If we were honest, there should be a lot of news in CNN and MSNBC all day,” we are in dictatorship at this time. “
The professor of the University of Stony Brook, Jeff Jarvis, spoke against Bezos’ announcement about Wednesday. (Screen capture/CNN)
Jarvis also reflected on Bezos’s approach to personal freedoms and free markets.
“It is a ridiculous word game that is happening here. I mean, who does not believe in individual freedoms? Who does not believe in free markets? Until a month ago, we live in a democracy, in the capitalist country. Now we are in an oligarchy and a plutocracy, and things have changed,” he said.
Jarvis added: “He is pointing out that he will use this kind of invented words to say: ‘I am with Trump’. And as you said, it is his article.
The measure also caused criticism of prominent democrats, including the Senator of California, Adam Schiff.
“In the appearance of advancing in ‘personal freedom’, the Washington Post will limit the freedom of its editors to publish opinions that do not advance the commercial interests of its owner,” Schiff tweeted.
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“It turns out that democracy dies in the hands of the oligarchs,” said representative Morgan McGarvey, D-Ky.
Michael Schaffer of Politicus wrote in a column For the magazine of the departure on Wednesday that democracy was “dying in the dark”, a reference to the slogan of the Washington Post.
“By personally announcing that the editorial line was dramatically reorienting, and in fact he would not even execute dissident opinions, Bezos added another acute example to a narrative that represents a serious threat to the image of the post: the idea that its owner is playing with the product for favor of its new friend Donald Trump, which has the power to retain Amazon contracts and other bezos companies,” “Schaffer wrote.
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The Washington Post did not respond immediately to a request for comments.
