Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announced an overhaul to the opinion section of his paper on Wednesday.
Bezos effectively said that the newspaper will have the same editorial stance as the Wall Street Journal, defending “two pillars: individual freedom and the free market.”
“We write every day to support and defend two pillars: personal freedom and free markets. We will of course cover other topics, but the perspectives against these pillars will be exposed by others,” Bezos said. “There was a time when newspapers, especially those that were local monopoly, could have seen them as a service that brought a wider opinion section to the reader’s gateway every morning, trying to cover all opinions. Today, the internet does its job.”
As expected, the editorial changes have rocked Wapo staff. Opinion editor David Shipley also resigned prior to Bezos’ announcement. (Related: Media has had the worst week of history, and we only have one month to Trump 2.0)
It’s not difficult to laugh at the meltdown among corporate media staff, liberal experts and advocates. But does it ultimately matter whether Wapo’s opinion section is proliberity and promet? Not so many if their newsrooms take over biased reports on a variety of topics and events.
The WAPO Opinion section may no longer be an incubator of left-wing authoritarian ideas, but what should be their fair news coverage is a way for reporters and writers to promote a liberal agenda.
Donald J. Trump will speak after signing an executive order in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, February 13, 2025 at the White House’s oval office. (Photo by the Washington Post via Jaybin Botsford/Getty Images)
Some notable examples include the Wapo ‘Fact-checker’ Glenn Kessler The spread of fake “Very Great People” is an attempt to counteract Trump’s hoax and opposition on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, as was the case in May 2020.
June 2021, WAPO Correction A straightforward news article that appears to be 2020 on Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton and the Labourek Theory. The story, which originally headlined “Tom Cotton continues to repeat the coronavirus conspiracy theory that had already been exposed,” has since been changed to “Tom Cotton continues to repeat the coronavirus fringe theory that scientists challenged.”
Wapo also pushed forward the fake narrative that Hunter’s laptop is Russian disinformation, and was terribly late to Hunter Biden’s laptop narrative. Rather than treating laptops and their content with journalistic integrity during the 2020 election, the outlet eventually verified thousands of emails found on computers in March 2022.
Worse, Wapo took part in the scandalous cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. In May 2024, the outlet released the story Frame Biden’s poor memories and frequent gaffes are not signs of aging, but as signs of wisdom.
Very recently, Wapo It was drawn Anti-do protests in Red State districts across the country as evidence of widespread and organic backlash in Trump and Musk’s wasteful federal audits. However, WAPO and other outlets have ignored or completely ignored the fact that many of these same protests are funded by specialized leftist activists groups. (Related: Anti-Trump Media Stories Explodes, revealing the despair on the left)
In particular, Wapo even smuggled with liberal columnist Philip Bump. the work He was in the political section of his website until January 19th, the day before Trump took office. Some of the more recent headlines of Bump in the political section include “Without Windmills, More Mass: Trump’s Return of Old-Style Climate Politics,” “An Exaggerated Social Media and Democracy Fusion with the Danger of Mask,” “Pete Hegses looks open to ordering soldiers to shoot protesters,” and “No, since RFK Jr. took office, the Bump column has been published under opinion.
The change in WAPO’s editorial board and opinion section may seem like a victory over the authoritarian leftists who have infiltrated corporate media. But the ju umpire has not yet been released on whether that newsroom will continue to carry water for Democrats and their fellow Beltway liberals, or whether it will cover the Second Trump administration with slight equity.
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