Amazon CEO and The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos made a startling announcement on Wednesday: The opinion pages of his newspaper will adopt a new editorial mission of defending “two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”
Hey, that’s our job!
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Indeed, if the new WaPo slogan sounds familiar to readers of Reason, that’s because Reason has long described itself as the magazine of “free minds and free markets.” The similarity was not lost on social media users, several of whom noted that Bezos would be bringing WaPo into ideological alignment with an already existing media brand.
WaPo today: pic.twitter.com/yzTlEXPHza
— Ryan Juliano (@rlj_law) February 26, 2025
Another news outlet expressing an interest in promoting civil liberties and economic freedom? Great! The more the merrier. Freedom, after all, does not suffer from a lack of enemies within the mainstream media. News coverage from a progressive and even ostensibly neutral bent often focuses on, say, the purported harms of making any cuts to bloated government; see, for instance, a recent news story in…
