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.

Current and former Washington Post staffers are rebelling against Jeff Bezos after he announced a “significant” editorial shift that will see the paper’s Opinion section focus almost exclusively on personal liberties and free markets.

W hen Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos stunned the newsroom on Wednesday by announcing that he was remaking the ideology of the opinion section so that it would be “writing ever