{"id":34642,"date":"2025-02-28T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T10:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/ex-washington-post-editor-marty-baron-rebukes-bezos-betrayal-of-free-expression\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T10:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T10:10:01","slug":"ex-washington-post-editor-marty-baron-rebukes-bezos-betrayal-of-free-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/ex-washington-post-editor-marty-baron-rebukes-bezos-betrayal-of-free-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Washington Post editor Marty Baron rebukes Bezos: \u2018betrayal of free expression\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauded former editor \u2018appalled\u2019 by billionaire newspaper owner\u2019s overhaul of opinion section to narrow focus<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t let a billionaire\u2019s algorithm control what you read. <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1ja835wd\">Download our free app to get trusted reporting<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/mar\/01\/marty-baron-washington-post-ultimate-old-school-editor-retires\">Marty Baron<\/a>, a highly regarded former editor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/washington-post\">Washington Post<\/a>, has said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/jeff-bezos\">Jeff Bezos<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/feb\/26\/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion\">announcement<\/a> that the newspaper\u2019s opinion section would narrow its editorial focus was a \u201cbetrayal of the very idea of free expression\u201d that had left him \u201cappalled\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Guardian, Baron also said: \u201cI don\u2019t think that [Bezos] wants an editorial page that\u2019s regularly going after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/28\/marty-baron-jeff-bezos-washington-post\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauded former editor \u2018appalled\u2019 by billionaire newspaper owner\u2019s overhaul of opinion section to narrow focus Don\u2019t let a billionaire\u2019s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting. Marty Baron, a highly regarded former editor of the Washington Post, has said that Jeff Bezos\u2019s announcement that the newspaper\u2019s opinion section would &#8230; <a title=\"Ex-Washington Post editor Marty Baron rebukes Bezos: \u2018betrayal of free expression\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/ex-washington-post-editor-marty-baron-rebukes-bezos-betrayal-of-free-expression\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ex-Washington Post editor Marty Baron rebukes Bezos: \u2018betrayal of free expression\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}