“There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views,” Bezos wrote. “Today, the internet does that job.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/02/26/washington-post-bezos-opinions-section/

You can find this story buried on the homepage now, by "Washington Post Staff" in a story about the resignation of the post's Opinions editor David Shipley.

Yeah, Jeff, just like Meta moving to community notes. We've seen what happens when you expect the Internet to get it right.

Post owner Bezos announces shift in opinions section; Shipley to leave

In an email and social media post, Jeff Bezos outlined dramatic changes to The Washington Post’s opinions section, and announced that opinions editor David Shipley has resigned.

The Washington Post

@briankrebs

And the #Internet does that #Job very badly. That #Bezos sources this #Section out, shows, how #narrowminded he is and never realized the real #meaning of a national #Treasure like the #WashingtonPost was one, which stood for the best #DEI can give. #Diversity - #Equality - #Inclusion. Shout it out loud into the #ugly #MAGA-Faces !!

@briankrebs Shorter Bezos: The days of mildly pretending the Washington Post is anything other than aristocratic propaganda are over.
@briankrebs Sounds like Jeff thinks we should all stop reading the Post and read the internet instead?

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So, we're just supposed to "do our own research?"

That only works when you don't, i.e. billionaires and retirees.

@briankrebs so if opinion sections aren't needed due to the internet, why is wapo still keeping its opinions section *at all*?