Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos defended his decision to overhaul the newspaper’s opinion page, insisting there’s nothing “fascist” about advocating for “personal liberties and free markets.” The billionaire Amazon founder faced harsh backlash over last week’s announcement that the Beltway broadsheet’s opinion pages will better reflect American values like “free markets and personal liberties” — a move that led to the resignation of

Kara Swisher and guests discuss the Washington Post's storied history, question Jeff Bezos' motives as its owner, and ask what it would take to "save" the paper from him.

A few months after Marty Baron was hired as the top editor of The Washington Post in 2013, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought the paper. The post Exclusive: Marty Baron on Jeff Bezos, The Washington Post,

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said Wednesday that the paper’s opinion editor has “decided to step away” as the section takes a new direction focusing on “personal liberties and free markets.”

Jeff Bezos knocked a yet another hole in the Washington Post's finances this week, as the paper has lost 75,000 digital subscriptions in the two days since the billionaire commanded its opinion section to exclusively promote his right wing views.

In February 2017, for the first time in its long history, the Washington Post adopted an official slogan: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” The motto was a little bit much. Pompous and self-important, it sounded as if the newspaper was really trying to say Without the Washington Post,

More than 75,000 digital subscribers have canceled their subscriptions to The Washington Post following an announcement by its owner, Jeff Bezos, that the paper’s opinion section would be revamped to align with libertarian ideals touting “personal liberties” and “free markets,