Washington Post editor resigns after accusing CEO of killing column | Ruth Marcus, a columnist and associate editor, said she had no choice as the paper’s traditional press freedoms have “dangerously eroded” at the Post
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> In a resignation letter to Bezos and CEO William Lewis, Marcus said “independent judgement” is no longer in play at *The Post* opinion section and new editorial policies will “break the trust of readers that columnists are writing what they believe, and not what the owners has deemed acceptable.”
> “Will’s decision to not run the column that I wrote respectfully dissenting from Jeff’s edict — something that I have not experienced in almost two decades of column-writing — underscores that the traditional freedom of columnists to select topics they wish to address and say what they think has been dangerously eroded,” Marcus wrote in her resignation, according to *The New York Times*.
Bezos has also updated WaPo slogan:
> Democracy Dies in the Dark 😈
Starting to think most of these billionaires don’t have our best interests at heart 😧
It may stagger some people as to why Bezos would make such self-defeating decisions over WaPo that undermine its use as either a profitable venture or as a vehicle of influence, but consider the idea that murdering a paper of record is an investment in and of itself if you think breeding political nihilism and apathy is useful to you
NPR is my last hope. I actually just donated for the first time to hopefully preserve some bastion of free media.
We need to have our elites go back to being Northeastern nepo babies. I feel like they had more genuine morals and a greater sense of civic duties than all of these new tech billionaires.
From Watergate to being censored by your own owner how sad for WAPO