Washington Post "Democracy Dies in the Darkness"

 The Washington Post's slogan is "Democracy Dies in the Darkness." It was purchased by Jeff Bezos (he of Amazon.com and multibillion-dollar fame) to the acclaim of those afraid its powerful voice would be lost to new owners. Mr. Bezos just wanted to save an independent paper.

Not so much anymore. Mr. Bezos is worried about crossing the Trump administration and has changed his and the Washington Post's trajectory. He "contributed" over $1 million to Trump's inauguration and "Presidential Library" funds. He also made the obligatory ass-kissing trip to Lago before the inauguration. 

Then, in the run-up to the election, he intervened to prevent the newspaper from endorsing Kamala Harris.

Now, he has decided to ONLY run op-eds on :

“We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” he wrote to his staff—missing the irony that he had just curtailed liberty of expression. “Viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.” Anyone wanting a different idea, Bezos added, could find it on the internet.

The Atlantic sums up my feelings:

How does a free press in this country die? Probably not the way Americans imagine. It’s unlikely—though not impossible—that heavily armed police are going to raid newspaper offices, confiscate computers, and haul editors and reporters off to jail. Media websites probably won’t go dark under government bans. Pro-regime militias with official backing won’t light a bonfire of anti-regime books and magazines on Pennsylvania Avenue. The demise of independent journalism in the United States will be less spectacular than the notorious examples of other times and places—as much voluntary as coerced, less like a murder than a death of despair.