Bezos on the march

It turns out that today is an especially inapt day to share a link to a Washington Post article. Jeff Bezos has taken a new step to change the newspaper he owns. From The Guardian:

Jeff Bezos, the self-proclaimed “hands-off” owner of the Washington Post, emailed staffers this morning about a change he’s applying to the paper’s opinion section.

“I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” Bezos said.

“We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. 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. Today, the internet does that job.”

If I hadn’t already cancelled my subscription to the Post last October, I’d be cancelling today.