Jeff Bezos: The Washington Post Needs to Hire More Conservative Opinion Writers

I guess he's feeling the sting of Get Woke, Go Broke.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has reportedly given the newspaper a mandate to add more conservative voices to its opinion section -- even as he remains silent over the broadsheet's decision not to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

Bezos -- the world's second richest person with a fortune that Bloomberg Billionaires Index valued at $211 billion as of Monday -- is keen on gaining a more ideologically diverse readership by expanding his newspaper's reach among right-leaning audiences, according to a report in The New York Times.

The left is continuing to melt down over the non-endorsement of Kamala Harris.

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Washington Post staffers were reeling over Bezos' decision to block the Harris endorsement, a draft of which was said to be all typed up and ready for publication.

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Lewis, who said it was him and not Bezos who killed the endorsement, wrote a column in which he said that the decision was actually a return to a tradition the paper had years ago of not endorsing candidates.

He said it was "consistent with the values the Post has always stood for" and it reflected the paper's faith in "our readers' ability to make up their own minds."

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The decision sparked a backlash among staffers and readership -- with scores of social media users proclaiming that they had cancelled their subscriptions to the paper.

One Washington Post reporter said she was left "heartbroken" when her mother cancelled her subscription over the nixed endorsement.

Robert Kagan, a member of the opinions section, resigned in protest. He said that Lewis' explanation was "laughable" and that the decision not to endorse stemmed from an alleged deal between Bezos and former President Donald Trump.

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"This is obviously an effort by Jeff Bezos to curry favor with Donald Trump in the anticipation of his possible victory," Kagan told CNN on Friday.

"Trump has threatened to go after Bezos' business," Kagan added, referring to Amazon.

Oh really? Why would he be afraid of something like that?

Why would a billionaire think the government is now hunting ideologically-opposed billionaires?

Disinformation Expert Lizzy @StarChamberMaid

Bezos is worried that Trump will do to him what the Regime has done to Elon.

If them's the rules, then them's the rules.

As you probably know, Jen Rubin virtue signaled for a couple of days, calling for more reporters to resign from the LA Times after that paper declined to endorse Kamala. (They refused to resign because of Kamala's failure to openly embrace Hamas.)

She kept saying "bravo" to those who resigned, and asked, of those who didn't resign, "Where are the rest of them?"

Well, it's now almost a week since it was first reported that Rubin's paper, the Post, wouldn't endorse Kamala, and she continues to not resign herself. She knows she's an absolutely useless, readerless NeverTrump charity case and if she quits this job, she won't get another.

She did, however, have the #StunningBravery to post a picture of herself in a DEI shirt.

Brava, bubbe, brava.

posted by Ace at 03:43 PM

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