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A lot of the people who played a significant role in that election, and particularly on the tech side of things, have come around to support you,
It no longer presents a variety of opinion but a propaganda push to benefit the owner,
recently departed senior opinion editor Amanda Katz noted, How much do you trust someone like Jeff Bezos?”
Who do I trust? I mean, who do you trust? Do you trust anybody? These are very smart guys,
Unbelievable. I had dinner with Jeff Bezos last night,
If we as a newspaper, and we as a country, are to defend his twin pillars, then we must redouble our fight against the single greatest threat to ‘personal liberties and free markets’ in the United States today: President Donald Trump,
wrote Dana Milbank in an op-ed published Friday It was described to me by someone who saw it as ‘more mystified and saddened than outraged or appalled,
Weingarten wrote of Wemple’s submitted work The consequences of Trump’s illiberal actions can already be seen. Inflation has accelerated. Jobless claims jumped more than expected. Consumer confidence has slid. The stock market has been volatile. Trump’s approval numbers have inched downward,
He’s saying that only his point of view is going to be represented on those pages and that really is a betrayal of the heritage of The Washington Post and I think a betrayal of the very idea of free expression,
said Baron, who has slammed Bezos for “basically” being “fearful” of President Donald Trump And I totally agree with him, that’s the nature of democracy, is that we have vigorous debate over policies but this is really an anti-democratic move,
I don’t know how they’re going to make it an interesting opinion page when all the opinions are the same, but I would predict that readership of the opinion page is likely to drop off dramatically,
He’s saying that other opinions should never see the light of day, wherever and whenever he’s in control of the space,
There’s been an enormous amount of damage inflicted on the Post from the top, but there’s a lot of good being done by people who work at the Post, and the newsroom has delivered what I consider to be truly admirable and revelatory coverage of the Trump administration,
If you’re trying to advance the cause of democracy, then you allow for public debate, which is what democracy is all about,
There’s been a long tradition at the Post of having a variety of opinions on the opinion pages and that’s part of its heritage,
He used to do that when I was there,
But now he’s retreated from that, and not just retreated, he has said quite clearly that alternative opinions won’t even be allowed there,
All of those were signs of efforts to repair his relationship with Donald Trump,
But now he barely has a word to say about it. All that courage seems to have evaporated,
I believe his critics who say this is about saving and you're carrying advantage for his other businesses like Amazon, which is potentially facing anti-trust problem,
