AxiosFeb 26, 2025
NEW: The Washington Post's Opinion Section editor David Shipley resigned after owner Jeff Bezos mandated the section only cover two topics, personal liberties and free markets. https://t.co/6ygwEfsfqI
WashPost opinion editor resigns after Jeff Bezos announces changes to Opinion section

Bezos is reshaping The Post's opinion coverage, which has focused on politics and policy for decades.

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Show threadBrianKrebsFeb 26, 2025

@axios And yet, we see this crap:

Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post's opinion section today — makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there," The Post's chief economics reporter Jeff Stein posted on X. "I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know."

Why legitimize X as a platform for journalism AT ALL? Don't make your stand at the nazi bar.

Show threadmaco

@briankrebs oh @axios won’t see this comment from you, because this isn’t an account they set up and control. It’s just a relay from X that someone set up so we’d be able to see headlines.

As a former Axios employee, I’ve sent messages to old colleagues pointing out that their click-through numbers for X will be falsified by people clicking through on here.

Feb 26, 2025 at 4:18pmWeb
Show threadBrianKrebsFeb 26, 2025
@maco @axios Thanks. Oh well. I'm used to shouting in the wind :)
Show threadyesthatkarimFeb 26, 2025
@maco @briankrebs @axios that’s like counting the total number of of current Titanic passengers by including the ones on the lifeboats and the ones floating dead in the ice water. “Our passenger numbers are higher than ever!” (It’s sad when the people in charge of statistical analysis are victims of confirmation bias.)