"Then the Crimson appeared with an editorial on the subject. It was a real Crimson editorial in which for the first hundred words the writer explained the duty which the Duke owed to the coach and the team, and in the next hundred explained that Harvard was a place where a man did as he chose, and then ended with a couple of hundred words completely befuddling the reader who might wonder just where the Crimson stood in the matter."
"In February Bezos issued a new directive that the editorial page would, every day, write in support of "personal liberties and free markets." His memo to staff continued: "We'll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others." Opinion editor David Shipley quit and Adam O'Neill, from The Economist, replaced him."
A university editorial is portrayed as offering successive hundred-word arguments for duty to the team and individual choice, ending by baffling readers about its actual stance. Contemporary editorial-page turmoil at The Washington Post followed owner Jeff Bezos's decision to suppress an endorsement and later to require daily advocacy for 'personal liberties and free markets.' The directive instructed the editorial page to foreground those pillars and leave opposing viewpoints to others. The opinion editor resigned, a new editor from The Economist took over, and many opinion writers departed. The phrase 'unapologetically patriotic' was criticized as potentially signaling partisan alignment with the Trump administration.
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