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Nothing in the story suggests anything about editorial control.

• wewtyflakes 2y ago
  Doesn't the article open with a declaration of such control? "The Washington Post's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, announced a sweeping new libertarian vision for the paper's opinion sections on Wednesday, just four months after his decision to kill a presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris triggered hundreds of thousands of subscribers to cancel."
  • SpicyLemonZest 2y ago
    In media circles, there's a widespread perspective that the opinions page is completely firewalled from the rest of the newspaper and it's wrong to draw inferences that ideological capture of one might influence the other. I personally consider this to be a polite fiction at best, but I have to acknowledge that people who actually work for newspapers pretty uniformly disagree with me.
• afavour 2y ago
  Huh? It is specifically a story about Bezos dictating what opinions will be published in his opinion section. That is definitely editorial control.