“I think there was a leadership decision at the top saying a resistance newspaper is not the path forward any further,” Benson said on Fox Business’s Varney & Company on Tuesday. Benson called it a “fascinating move” by the paper, hinting that the Washington Post may have noticed a drop in readership.
He argued that the Washington Post decided to move the “editorial direction not right wing, but right of center, sort of in some ways blue-collar right of center.”
In 2025, the owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, announced significant changes to the paper.
He shared a letter he sent to staff on X, saying, “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”
He also added that David Shipley, the editorial page editor for the paper, stepped down from his role after Bezos asked him to lead this new charge.
