Jeff Bezos Frees WaPo Opinion Pages Of The Personal Liberty Of Expressing Their Opinion

Look, when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post a decade ago, people worried that a billionaire owner might interfere with the paper’s editorial independence. For years, those fears seemed o…

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#Bezos said on Wed he would mandate the paper’s #opinions section to focus on supporting #FreeMarkets & #PersonalLiberties, saying those pieces w/opposing views can “be left to be published by others.”

The move was rebuked by current & former #WashingtonPost staffers, though it was praised in a trolling post by #Trump’s WH.

#MartyBaron #FourthEstate #journalism #media #FreePress #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #ViewPointDiscrimination #law #USpol

@Flipboard @CNN Not sure if someone who can't detect irony should work in publishing.

#freedom
#personalliberties

Trading personal liberties for political gain: Micah Mitchell

Ohioans deserve a government that respects their autonomy and works to create an inclusive and just society, rather than one that seeks to control and dictate personal decisions, a government more in line with what voters directed with Issue 1, rather than the legislation now advancing in Columbus to restrict transgender rights, writes guest columnist Micah Mitchell, a Crane Policy Fellow at the ACLU of Ohio.

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