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Jeff Bezos’ Plan to Revamp Washington Post Opinion Section Leads Editor to Quit
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is changing the focus of the paper's opinion section, leading to the resignation of section editor David Shipley.
Last fall Bezos kicked off a major backlash among Washington Post readers and staff when he decreed — less than two weeks before the U.S. presidential election — that the newspaper would not endorse a candidate. I’m like the doting parent in that regard.” Bezos had previously written in a Washington Post op-ed that he was aiming to restore consumers’ trust in the paper by eliminating the practice of political endorsements, which he said “create the perception of bias.” There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views.
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