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Bezos Exerts More Control Over WaPo OpEd Section

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In case you've enjoyed any gift articles from WaPo I've shared... my spouse has canceled the subscription.

I have cancelled my WaPo subscription as well.
Bezos has no business asserting his control over the Opinion pages. btw, the Editor of the WaPO opinion page has resigned.

Another reporter noted:
  • "Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post's opinion section today — makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there," The Post's chief economics reporter Jeff Stein posted on X. "I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know."

 
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In a few months the only opinions around will be conservative Republicans opinions.

....you mean the official government spokeswoman, supplemented by Truthsocial.

Meanwhile:

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it would start handpicking which media outlets were allowed to participate in the presidential press pool, the small, rotating group of reporters who relay the president’s day-to-day activities to the public.

The change breaks decades of precedent. It allows the White House to assert more control over which journalists can witness his activities up-close and ask him questions.

The White House Correspondents’ Association, a 111-year-old group representing journalists who cover the administration, has long determined on its own which reporters would participate in the daily pool.
 
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....you mean the official government spokeswoman, supplemented by Truthsocial.

Meanwhile:

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it would start handpicking which media outlets were allowed to participate in the presidential press pool, the small, rotating group of reporters who relay the president’s day-to-day activities to the public.

The change breaks decades of precedent. It allows the White House to assert more control over which journalists can witness his activities up-close and ask him questions.

The White House Correspondents’ Association, a 111-year-old group representing journalists who cover the administration, has long determined on its own which reporters would participate in the daily pool.
yeah but Biden tried to censor twitter, so...
 
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No so much where the owner, whos primary interests are elsewhere, controls both.
In the context of this thread topic, citing someone giving their opinion and calling them a reporter is kind of ironic, don't you think?
 
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"Left-libertarian" as opposed to "right-libertarian" (like Rand Paul). What we used to call "socially liberal" probably with a bit of "fiscally conservative". (A classic combination.) Toss in a bit of libertarian

Sometimes we characterize them as "anarcho-capitalists", though "techno-authoritarians" seems a lot closer these days.

Yanis Varoufakis has called it "techno-feudalism", and I believe that's more accurate. They view most people as just serfs they can manipulate or control through technology, and they view strong, democratically run governments as an obstacle to their vision of the world.
 
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In the context of this thread topic, citing someone giving their opinion and calling them a reporter is kind of ironic, don't you think?

I don't get the irony you suggest.
The reporter was not the "reporter" for the article, His opinion was highlighted as an example of what he would do if Bezo's exerices the same control with news reporters...
 
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In case you've enjoyed any gift articles from WaPo I've shared... my spouse has canceled the subscription.
I canceled Wapo and NYT weeks ago. I actually had WSJ for awhile, and got rid of that, too. I'm not sure where to find accurate news anymore.
 
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I don't get the irony you suggest.
The reporter was not the "reporter" for the article, His opinion was highlighted as an example of what he would do if Bezo's exerices the same control with news reporters...
Okay so the reporter is not reporting facts but reporting his opinion. Fine. In that sense, he/she is a reporter. Then you and I are also reporters. Everyone on Earth is a reporter.
 
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I hear 75,000 subscribers (so far) have cancelled over this, and another 150,000 cancelled over the non-endorsement in the presidential race.
I've cancelled my subscription to High Times, because I realized I don't need marijuana to make me laugh. I just need to read liberals reactions to things.
 
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I've cancelled my subscription to High Times, because I realized I don't need marijuana to make me laugh. I just need to read liberals reactions to things.
I cancelled my subscription to High Times back when they restricted the editorial page to "personal liberties and free markets."
 
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