Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos defended his decision to overhaul the newspaper’s opinion page, insisting there’s nothing “fascist” about advocating for “personal liberties and free markets.” The billionaire Amazon founder faced harsh backlash over last week’s announcement that the Beltway broadsheet’s opinion pages will better reflect American values like “free markets and personal liberties” — a move that led to the resignation of

The change is a pivot from the current objective to cover a range of views and prompted the resignation of the Post’s opinion editor, David Shipley.

The billionaire owner of The Washington Post is directing its opinion section to defend personal liberties and the free market in a shift that prompted the editor of that page to resign.

Jeff Bezos said The Washington Post will soon only publish opinion pages in support of "personal liberties and free markets."

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said Wednesday that the paper’s opinion editor has “decided to step away” as the section takes a new direction focusing on “personal liberties and free markets.”

Jeff Bezos is exerting more influence over the content of the Washington Post opinion pages, as he announced Wednesday that its editorials will now focus on “defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.

In February 2017, for the first time in its long history, the Washington Post adopted an official slogan: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” The motto was a little bit much. Pompous and self-important, it sounded as if the newspaper was really trying to say Without the Washington Post,

More than 75,000 digital subscribers have canceled their subscriptions to The Washington Post following an announcement by its owner, Jeff Bezos, that the paper’s opinion section would be revamped to align with libertarian ideals touting “personal liberties” and “free markets,

Jeff Bezos knocked a yet another hole in the Washington Post's finances this week, as the paper has lost 75,000 digital subscriptions in the two days since the billionaire commanded its opinion section to exclusively promote his right wing views.