Washington Post opinion editor departs as Bezos pushes to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’

Opinion editor leaves as Amazon executive and newspaper owner says viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others'

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Jeff Bezos, the self-proclaimed hands-off" owner of the Washington Post, emailed staffers on Wednesday morning about a change he is applying to the paper's opinion section that appears to align the newspaper more closely with the political right.

I'm writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets," Bezos said.