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Washington Post staffers outraged at Jeff Bezos' stunning plan for opinion pages

Feb 26, 2025 View Original Article
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    10% Center

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    80% ReliableGood

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  • Politician Portrayal

    -56% Negative

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63% : "Echoing Jeff (Stein), if Bezos interferes with my work on the news side - I'm out," he added.
38% : Meanwhile, Washington Post video producer Dave Jorgenson - who is the face of the paper's YouTube and TikTok accounts - took to his Bluesky account on Wednesday to repost a video he made a few months ago about "why some billionaires are going soft on Trump.
19% : Shipley was the editor who decided not to publish an editorial cartoon showing Bezos on bended knee before Trump, prompting the cartoonist to quit.
18% : Bezos' latest mandate comes amid concerns among the publication's journalists that the Amazon founder is currying favor with Donald Trump by softening the Post's coverage of the anti-media president, which began when he blocked the editorial board's endorsement of then-Vice President Kamala Harris last October.

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