Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was once a vocal critic of Donald Trump. But that changed during last year’s election campaign. Now, he has instructed the newspaper he owns, The Washington Post, to shift its editorial line to be more in line with the president. So what provoked Bezos’s political change of heart?Murad Ahmed and the FT’s US media editor Anna Nicolau speak to Marty Baron, the former executive editor of the Washington Post, about why Bezos bought the Post in the first place, the effect his ownership is having on the newspaper, and how the editorial shift is symptomatic of a larger impact the president seems to be having across the American media landscape.&nbsp;Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post did not reply to a request for comment.Free to read:<a href="https://on.ft.com/446iqp0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Jeff Bezos made peace with Donald Trump&nbsp;</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/4lgLukG" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jeff Bezos focuses Washington Post opinion pages on ‘personal liberties’ and ‘free markets’</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3Tsd3eC" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jeff Bezos to sell up to $4.75bn in Amazon stock</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3STo6NX" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amazon to begin deploying rival satellites to Starlink this month&nbsp;</a>This season of Tech Tonic is presented by Murad Ahmed and produced by Josh Gabert-Doyon. The senior producer is Edwin Lane and the executive producer is Flo Phillips. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Original music by Metaphor Music, Manuela Saragosa and Topher Forhecz are the FT’s acting co-heads of audio.<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/b00f8ae0-3546-4912-b345-4838a0c5bbf0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com</a><hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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