Via the NYT and WSJ, here’s more proof Jeff Bezos has been an absolutely awful steward of the Washington Post: He’s ordered that the Post’s opinion pages will now exclusively advocate “personal liberties and free markets” and not tolerate opposing views. … We all know Bezos has been currying favor with Donald Trump for a while now — and why. But in his X post, Bezos also comes across as someone with all the zeal of a recent convert, similar to Silicon Valley billionaire Marc Andreesen, who last month told the NYT’s Roth Douthat how he converted from tech-titan liberal to tech-titan MAGA supporter. … Bezos also sounds like he’s bought into a variation of MSNBC/Fox News business model of pandering to an ideological base to attract and keep loyal viewers. In the Post’s case, it’s about clicks, not cable viewers. On this subject, here’s how the WSJ describes it:

“[Bezos] said the move was borne of a reality publishers have been wrestling with in the digital age: The internet now serves the purpose of being a community’s town square.

“‘There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job,’ Bezos wrote in a post on X and memo to staff on Wednesday.”

So he’s tacking hard right as a result. It’s where he thinks the clicks and dollars are, or so he believes. …

Dan Kennedy has much more on good old Jeff. … And here’s a sampling of my own past anti-Jeff rants, here and here and here.