Washington Post Editor Quits After Bezos-Critical Article Killed

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Ruth Marcus left The Washington Post after they killed her column. The New Yorker just published it in full.

When Ruth Marcus resigned from her position as an associate editor and longtime political columnist at the Washington Post on March 10, she said it was because Post publisher Will Lewis had killed one of her columns. Specifically, she’d written a column criticizing Post owner Jeff Bezos’ vision for an opinion page that advocated for “personal liberties and free markets” without opposing viewpoints. On Wednesday, The New Yorker published that col…

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Washington Post columnist who resigned over a spiked Bezos op-ed ‘fears’ readers can’t trust opinion writers

Ruth Marcus, who recently resigned as a Washington Post columnist after four decades, said she parted ways with the paper following a spiked opinion piece on the paper’s billionaire owner because her job is to tell readers “what I think, not what Jeff Bezos thinks I should think.”

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Why I Left the Washington Post

Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where Ruth Marcus worked for forty years. After the publisher killed her column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—she decided to quit.

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Longtime Washington Post Writer Resigns After Publisher Denies Piece Critical of Bezos

Washington Post columnist and associate editor Ruth Marcus has resigned after more than four decades at the newspaper, alleging censorship. Marcus wrote in a resignation note that CEO and publisher Will Lewis barred publication of her column critical of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos and his announcement that opinion pieces in the Post would henceforth focus on “personal liberties and free markets.” Marcus’s resignation comes just weeks after Puli…

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Media: A collective surrender to Trump?

The free press in America is suffering a drawn-out “death of despair,” said George Packer in The Atlantic, and The Washington Post may be the first to go. Just months after he meddled in editorial decisions by nixing the Post’s presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris, owner Jeff Bezos last week sent a note to staff decreeing that the paper’s opinion pages would now focus on championing “two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” Left u…

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She worked for the "Washington Post" for more than 40 years – but now she has enough: Ruth Marcus leaves the traditional paper, which was not printed by her last column. In it, she spoke critically about the new course of owner Jeff Bezos.