Restoration News has a thoughtful essay by Matt Wolfson about Jeff Bezos’ makeover of The Washington Post, the largest provider of state/local news in Virginia. Although Bezos is pushing the Post’s op-ed section to embrace liberty and free markets, Wolfson sees the Amazon CEO’s moves as a deep-state power play.

His conclusion: “This is media-as-cartel: A monopolization of information by a small number of connected players who can set the terms of its release, and even stop some information from being released at all. It is an unprecedented threat to America’s constitutional republic and the free flow of public opinion on which our founders knew it to depend.”

In this view, state/local news reporting is very much the tail of the dog — indeed, hair on the tail of the dog. How that coverage is structured and resourced likely hinges largely upon decisions made for strategic reasons that have nothing to do with Virginia’s wellbeing. — JAB