Amazon executive and newspaper owner says in letter that ‘viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others’

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Jeff Bezos, the self-proclaimed “hands-off” owner of the Washington Post, emailed staffers this morning about a change he’s applying to the paper’s opinion section.

“I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” Bezos said.