If you interfere with your business in a way that upsets staff and customers, you risk their ire—no matter the reasons for your decisions.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos on Wednesday announced a “significant shift” to the publisher’s opinion page that led David Shipley, the paper’s editorial page editor, to leave the paper.

Jeff Bezos said the Washington Post's editorials will now focus on "personal liberties and free markets," with the paper's op-ed editor exiting.