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Jeff Bezos Announces Resignation of Washington Post Opinion Editor Over New Editorial Mandate in Stunning Statement

www.mediaite.com Jeff Bezos Announces Resignation of Washington Post Opinion Editor Over New Editorial Mandate in Stunning Statement

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, announced that he would be taking the storied newspaper in a new direction.

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Jeff Bezos Announces Resignation of Washington Post Opinion Editor Over New Editorial Mandate in Stunning Statement

www.mediaite.com /news/jeff-bezos-announces-resignation-of-washington-post-opinion-editor-over-new-editorial-mandate-in-stunning-statement/

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Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.
this is a very interesting sentence to find in a post that outlines the ways in which the opinion page will be losing some of its editorial freedom.
- War is peace.
  Freedom is slavery.
  Ignorance is strength.
  
  In the grimdark future of the 2nd millennium, there is only way.
- It's also gotta be one of the worst sentences I've ever read, yikes. Maybe get an editor to look it over.
  
  They did. They just looked at it and said "hell yes" while sweating profusely.
  
  Hey, I like to think that sometimes I might feel the need to write remarkably similar sentences to the kinds that you, u/bearboiblake might have referenced in this particular editorial expression of human nature and sentiment in America, today.
  -You know, badly,
  
  Yeah two em dashes in a single sentence is too many, and that one's got three

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