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LilMikeSF<p>5 yrs ago the <a href="https://c.im/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> editorial board wrote "Democracy is at risk, at home and around the world. The nation desperately needs a president who will respect its public servants; stand up for the rule of law; acknowledge Congress’s constitutional role; and work for the public good, not his private benefit.” </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billionaire</span></a> baron buyer of that iconic <a href="https://c.im/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Potomac</span></a> paper <a href="https://c.im/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JeffBezos</span></a> has since put his thumb on the <a href="https://c.im/tags/editorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>editorial</span></a> scale.</p><p> The once disagreeing voices needed in the editorial opinion pages are muffled and only bending truth to please the owner and his new pals at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in DC. Bezos has since announced he is paying over $40 million for exclusive rights to a documentary about the first lady produced by the first lady herself and directed by a Hollywood cretin who was last seen being chased out of town under a cloud of rape accusations. </p><p>This ain't Katherine Graham's <a href="https://c.im/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a>, Woodward &amp; Bernstein definitely don't work there anymore ... <a href="https://c.im/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> aren't telling truth or shedding light in darkness, but bending viewpoints towards vaguely defined support of the owner's interest in "personal liberties and free markets" ... and I , along with millions of others have canceled a long time <a href="https://c.im/tags/subscription" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subscription</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> tells of her final daze writing under Bezos editorial control, beginning with the passage...</p><p>"The values of the Post do not need changing,” Jeff Bezos told <a href="https://c.im/tags/employees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>employees</span></a> when he bought the newspaper a dozen years ago. He echoed the words of the Post’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/owner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>owner</span></a> Eugene Meyer in 1935, emphasizing, “The paper’s duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners.”</p><p>...and ultimately reveals the rest of column that paper refused ... revealing "the unavoidable truth: the Washington Post I joined, the one I came to love, is not the Washington Post I left."</p><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/why-ruth-marcus-left-the-washington-post" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/news/essay/why-r</span><span class="invisible">uth-marcus-left-the-washington-post</span></a></p>
jackhutton 🇺🇸<p>[The New Yorker]: Why I Left the Washington Post.</p><p>Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided to quit. By Ruth Marcus, Wednesday, March 12, 2025 </p><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/why-ruth-marcus-left-the-washington-post" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/news/essay/why-r</span><span class="invisible">uth-marcus-left-the-washington-post</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/washingtonpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>washingtonpost</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/freedomofthepress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedomofthepress</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ruthmarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ruthmarcus</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/jeffbezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jeffbezos</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Gene Weingarten notes that Ruth Marcus was also an Associate Editor of Washington Post, "and was so well thought of that when Opinions editor Fred Hiatt died suddenly in December 2021, she was appointed interim editor, along with Karen Tumulty."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JeffBezos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a><br>/4</p><p><a href="https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/sigh-vol-ix" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">geneweingarten.substack.com/p/</span><span class="invisible">sigh-vol-ix</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"What a perfect encapsulation of our media moment: a billionaire buys a storied newspaper, blocks endorsements, mandates coverage aligned with his ideology, and then silences anyone who dares question the new direction—all while claiming to champion "personal liberties."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JeffBezos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a><br>/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"I am taking this step, after more than 40 years at The Post, following Will's decision to spike a column that I wrote expressing a concern about the newly announced direction for the section and declined to discuss the decision with me."</p><p>Molloy says,</p><p>"This is what happens when newspapers are run like authoritarian fiefdoms instead of journalistic institutions."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JeffBezos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a><br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>As Parker Molloy reports, highly regarded Washingon Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigned today, stating,</p><p>"With immense sadness I am writing to let you know that I have resigned from The Washington Post, in an email sent this morning to Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis and pasted below."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JeffBezos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a><br>/1</p><p><a href="https://www.readtpa.com/p/another-dark-day-at-the-bezos-post" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">readtpa.com/p/another-dark-day</span><span class="invisible">-at-the-bezos-post</span></a></p>
Flipboard News Desk<p>Columnist Ruth Marcus has quit the Washington Post, saying publisher Will Lewis killed an op-ed critical of Jeff Bezos' edict about the paper's opinion section. Lewis' decision "underscores that the traditional freedom of columnists to select the topics they wish to address and say what they think has been dangerously eroded," Marcus said. Here's more from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@npr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>npr</span></a></span>.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/DIsxm1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/DIsxm1</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JeffBezos</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a></p><p>A dangerous, damaging civil war at the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> Department</p><p>- <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a></p><p>“What’s going on is nothing short of a civil war inside the Justice Department, a battle over whether its lawyers are going to serve as the obedient shock troops for President Donald <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> or as custodians of the rule of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a>, with simultaneous duties to defer to policy determinations of the incumbent administration &amp; to respect professional standards.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judiciary</span></a> <br><a href="https://wapo.st/4hZcbbW" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wapo.st/4hZcbbW</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Orrock LXXXVI XLVII<p>TY <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ruthmarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ruthmarcus</span></a> "And speaking of Trump’s rhetoric, Merchan had some choice words on that, again worth heeding and valuable to have on the record. Trump, contending that his 'contributions to this City and the Nation are too numerous to count,' asserted that his public service and character should weigh as important factors in dismissing the charges.<br>Merchan wasn’t buying — and he turned Trump’s claims of exemplary character on their head.</p><p>"'Defendant has gone to great lengths to broadcast on social media and other forums his lack of respect for judges, juries, grand juries and the justice system as a whole,' he wrote. </p><p>“'In the case at bar, despite repeated admonitions, this Court was left with no choice but to find the Defendant guilty of 10 counts of Contempt.'</p><p>"His conclusion?</p><p> "'Defendant’s character and history vis-a-vis the Rule of Law and the Third Branch of government must be analyzed under this factor in direct relation to the result he seeks, and in that vein, it does not weigh in his favor.'”</p>
(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://progressivecafe.social/@MariaHill" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MariaHill</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@PamelaBarroway" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>PamelaBarroway</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>TonyStark</span></a></span>. I hear you. I canceled my WaPo subscription a few months ago. One too many "both sides" plus "horse race" articles plus <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GeorgeWill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeWill</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> (has she changed her tune about the lack of merit regarding the election interference case?) pushed me over the edge. Even so, it wasn't a decision I made lightly and I still do miss some of its reporting; for example, the articles on inadequate nursing home care/assisted living were very, very good.</p>
(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p>excellent, concise piece that not only explains the seriousness of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> interference case (aka the hush money case, which is more salacious-sounding and therefore used more often) but the incorrect arguments, offered by some <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/lawyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lawyers</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> (this coverage contributed to my dropping the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a>, I believe it was a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> piece poo-pooing the case) about the seriousness of the case (buttressed of course by calling it the hush money case). </p><p><a href="https://popular.info/p/people-v-trump" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">popular.info/p/people-v-trump</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>Ruth Marcus: there is no such thing as “too many indictments.” One indicts to charge the crimes committed. WTF?!?</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BadTakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadTakes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WTF</span></a></p>
John Refior<p>He’s unfairly burdened millions of Americans. If he is burdened, it is perfectly fair. In fact no burden we can impose on him could possibly be enough to achieve justice<br>--<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/indictment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indictment</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a></p>