WaPo editorial member leaves over Bezos' 'relentless promotion of free markets and personal liberties'

A Washington Post editorial board member is reportedly leaving the paper citing leadership s relentless promotion of free markets and personal liberties Following President Donald Trump s re-election Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos communicated that the editorial section of the paper would be changing program prompting then-opinion editor David Shipley to leave We are going to be writing every day in sponsorship and defense of two pillars personal liberties and free markets We ll cover other topics too of syllabus but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others Bezos posted on X in Feb This proved to be too much for liberal Post editorial board member and columnist Eduardo Porter who mentioned he would no longer be writing for the paper because he is a bad fit for this ideological turn WASHINGTON POST STAFF 'SHELLSHOCKED' BY CONSTANT BLOWS TO MORALE AS BOSSES SEEK BUYOUTS INSIDER SAYSIn a letter allegedly penned by Porter he disclosed Jeff Bezos and his new head of Opinion are taking the paper down a path I cannot follow directed towards the relentless promotion of free markets and personal liberties unflinching in its patriotism and unbounded in its optimism about the future of the United States In my view this layering of dogma undermines critical thinking It is in tension with my understanding of what journalism analysis and commentary are about It risks turning the Post into something more akin to a church with tight constraints on thought he added Porter appeared to believe that the new direction would turn the Washington Post into a pamphlet for venerating the technological plutocracy at the apex of American society that he believes Bezos takes part in as a tech-based mogul He also questioned Trump's influence in these decisions I have no idea to what extent this is driven by Mr Bezos fear of what Donald Trump could do to his various business interests largest part of which are more valuable to him than The Post the letter read Fox News Digital reached out to Porter and the Washington Post for comment Reports of Porter leaving the Post come on the heels of fellow columnist Jonathan Capehart who had previously resigned from the editorial board reportedly accepting a buyout to leave the paper after nearly two decades WASHINGTON POST ANNOUNCES ANOTHER BUYOUT SCHEME TARGETING VETERAN STAFFERS OTHER DEPARTMENTSA glut of columnists and opinion page contributors - Ann Telnaes David Shipley Ruth Marcus Eugene Robinson and just earlier this month Joe Davidson have also all departed the beltway paper as concerns mount over the Washington Post s editorial slant taking a rightward shift following Trump s re-election CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPWashington Post publisher and CEO Will Lewis urged staff members in a memo earlier this month that those who didn t feel aligned with the new direction should take a buyout and leave