Interesting...
It appears the WAPO is getting 'new' directions...
Amazon founder and owner of The Washington Post Jeff Bezos announced a new direction for the paper Wednesday morning as a reckoning among the media in a new Trump era continues.
"I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others," Bezos wrote in a letter to Washington Post employees and posted on X. "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. Today, the internet does that job."
"I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else.
Full article, HERE from Town Hall.
The WAPO, like most of the 'major' papers has been bleeding subscribers and advertising dollars for years.
And the WAPO was fully 'invested' in the leftist agenda, parroting the words/phrases/talking points of the left since at least 2008. Apparently, Bezos doesn't like losing money and has made a decision that will be, to put it mildly, VERY unpopular with not only the staff but also with the Washington, DC insiders...
Is this going to be too little, too late?
I don't know, but the results, if we see any, will be interesting to put it mildly...
The other question that comes to mind is what is Bezos really trying to do???
I don't have a clue. how about y'all???
I think the question is ask you back, is, too little, to late, for what?
Bezos could afford to keep the Post afloat for a long time with zero subscribers, I expect. So if we exclude actually making money, what purpose did he have in mind when he bought it? Personal semaphore, perhaps?
As we've seen with several other techlords, I think whatever his personal politics, he wants to at least not be on the bad side of whoever is in power, if not actively on their good side.
Bezos isn’t shifting The Washington Post toward conservatism. He’s slowing its collapse long enough to sell ad space for another few years. Murdoch built Fox as a reactionary insurgency—it was meant to capture a neglected audience. WaPo, by contrast, was the establishment narrative. If legacy media has lost legitimacy, its pivot is irrelevant—it’s just a question of how long it takes to hit the ground.
The real question isn’t whether there’s enough trust left in legacy media for this shift to work. It’s whether Bezos actually needs trust at all. Maybe he’s just stalling the inevitable while reshuffling the same deck. If the crowd is moving rightward, maybe WaPo doesn’t need to ‘become conservative’—maybe it just needs to look conservative enough to slow the loss of readership while continuing to serve the same function.