The article critiques Jeff Bezos's recent announcement to realign The Washington Post's opinion section towards supporting personal liberties and free markets. It argues that such a move exemplifies the hypocrisy of wealthy media owners and their influence on journalism. The author notes past controversies, including the cancellation of the Post's endorsement of Kamala Harris, which prompted significant subscriber losses. This shift in direction is seen as a continuation of the rightward trend among tech elites post-election, ultimately weakening the newspaper's integrity.
For generations, this has been one of the overriding perks of media ownership. If Jeff Bezos wanted to turn The Washington Post's opinion section over to an AI-powered version of Alexa, he'd be within his rights.
The same Bezos who decided to cancel the Post's endorsement of Kamala Harris just before the election-a move that led more than 250,000 paying Post readers to cancel their subscriptions within days.
The tech aristocracy's rightward turn is by now a familiar theme of the postelection period, and it doesn't take much brain power to see today's announcement as part of the same shift.
This decision can only make the Post a weaker institution.
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