5 yrs ago the #WashingtonPost 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.”
#Billionaire baron buyer of that iconic #Potomac paper #JeffBezos has since put his thumb on the #editorial scale.
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.
This ain't Katherine Graham's #WaPo, Woodward & Bernstein definitely don't work there anymore ... #Writers 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 #subscription.
#RuthMarcus tells of her final daze writing under Bezos editorial control, beginning with the passage...
"The values of the Post do not need changing,” Jeff Bezos told #employees when he bought the newspaper a dozen years ago. He echoed the words of the Post’s #owner Eugene Meyer in 1935, emphasizing, “The paper’s duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners.”
...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."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/why-ruth-marcus-left-the-washington-post
