You could call it the ‘Great Emboldening’: an era where ideas and actions that might have been unthinkable, objectionable, or reputationally risky in the past are now on the table.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, left, and FBI director Kash Patel attend Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration in January. AP
When Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post almost 12 years ago, he went out of his way to assuage fears that he would turn the paper into his personal mouthpiece.
“The values of the Post do not need changing,” he wrote at the time. “The paper’s duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners.”
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