A controversial decision by billionaire Jeff Bezos, the online retailer Amazon, to remove a top-selling book is not reported by the Washington Post.
The Washington Free Beacon noted Friday that the Post did not remove its sister company’s decision to sell a top-selling book that had previously labeled the paper anti-transgender.
Author Ryan T. Anderson said this week that his book, “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment”, has been removed from Amazon. The decision caused a rapid setback, as critics pointed out that Amazon had a history of books censored that did not coincide with the company’s liberal political view.
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While the Washington Post did not address Amazon’s decision to remove the book, in 2018 it covered the same book with the headline: “Ryan Anderson’s book on transgender people is causing a stir.”
The three-year-old story said the book “which some say is an inciting case against transgender people” because Anderson “claims that the growing acceptance of American society of transgenderism has more to do with ideology than science.”
“The current rumor about Anderson started when bloggers noticed that ‘When Harry Became Sally’ shot up to number 1 on two of Amazon’s book lists – one on natural law and another on LGBT issues,” the Post reported at the time. pointed out that Bezos owned both the newspaper and Amazon.
It is unclear why the Post discussed the book before it was released, but failed to let readers know that Amazon has removed the book from its platform.
“We do not discuss our internal coverage plans, and all editorial decisions are made independently of the interests of any outside party or company,” a Mail spokesman told Fox News.
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“When Harry Became Sally” was aimed at “providing thoughtful answers to questions arising from our transgender moment” and offers a “balanced approach to public policy on gender identity, and a sober assessment of the human cost of to wrong human nature. “
The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, and it appears that the controversial decision taken by the online retailer was not reported by the billionaire’s newspaper.
(AP)
A search by Amazon for ‘When Harry Became Sally’ on Monday does not find Anderson’s book, but suggests books with the opposite view such as ‘The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society’, ‘Understanding’ Gender’s Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture “and” Let Harry Sally Become: Respond to the Anti-Transgender Moment. “
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Marty Baron, executive editor of the Post, has long maintained that Bezos does not make editorial decisions.