Marty Baron: What Jeff Bezos Is Doing ‘Dishonors Free Expression’ and Is ‘Anti-Democratic in Nature’

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BARON: “You know, Bezos said that he's in favor of personal liberties. Well, of course, so am I. And that's why I'm in favor of free expression. You know, it's right there in the First Amendment. And news organizations have always honored free expression by having a variety of points of view on their opinion pages. But Bezos now is just shutting that down. And he's saying that only his point of view is going to be represented on those pages. And that really is a betrayal of the heritage of 'The Washington Post' and I think a betrayal of the very idea of free expression. And it actually can contrast how newspapers, news organizations honored free expression with a variety of points of view. It actually dishonors free expression, you know, which is the most fundamental personal liberty of American citizens.”