> It is explicitly that now. Bezos policy change back in 2025: "Billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is directing the paper’s opinion section to focus on “personal liberties and free markets"

That's about as uncharitable a take as you can possibly get. Bezos pushed the paper's editorial slant toward libertarian, and Shipley didn't like it, because it didn't fit his own political ideals. You could just as easily say Shipley was propagandizing a different philosophy before the change, it wasn't selling to the paper's target audience, and Bezos fixed the problem.

Regardless, editorial writers do not have a deity-given right to espouse their political opinions while collecting a paycheck -- particularly when their opinions aren't selling product. This goes all the way back to the very first news broadsheets. Throughout US history, newspapers have switched political philosophy as business needs dictated.