Bezos directs Washington Post opinion pages to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’
Bezos directs Washington Post opinion pages to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’
David Shipley, The Post’s opinion editor, is resigning after trying to persuade Jeff Bezos to reconsider the new direction.
The Washington Post’s opinion editor, David Shipley, is exiting as the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, steers the section in a libertarian direction.
In an email to The Post’s employees on Wednesday, Mr. Bezos said that Mr. Shipley was stepping down amid a narrowing of the opinion section’s focus to defend “personal liberties and free markets.”
“I am of America and for America, and proud to be so,” Mr. Bezos said. “Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical; it drives creativity, invention and prosperity.”
In his note, Mr. Bezos said that he asked Mr. Shipley whether he wanted to stay at The Post, and Mr. Shipley declined.
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Every corporate media conglomerate is a shill for capitalism and the state.
Yes. Literally all of them. They won't show you news or opinion that clashes with the views of their shareholders.
If you want real news. Stop consuming corporate media.
And consume what? alternative media? I can tell you in Canada, Facebook is pretty popular, especially for X/Y gen, and in Canada meta does not publish any news from corporate media (newspapers, news tv channel, etc) but only from "alt media" and it's full of conspiracies, fake news, far-right propaganda, and things like this. Facebook is a cancer to information in Canada. I still trust CBC/SRC and some Canadian corporate media even knowing it may be editorialized like LCN/JdM.
Nonprofit journalism.
https://www.trustworthymedia.org/list-of-independent-media/
It really is nearly this simple.
My only go-to is ProPublica at the moment. There are also individual blogs that are good news sources and if you can parse the fnords in wire services you can generally rely on basic facts being presented in a fucked up way, which would necessarily be reinterpreted.