Ruth Marcus, unsilenced. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w... - ThreadSky

connieschultz.bsky.social • 16 hours ago

Ruth Marcus, unsilenced.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/why-ruth-marcus-left-the-washington-post

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bevilacquapalesky.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I applaud your courage.

iedev.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I already didn't have an Amazon Prime subscription and never bought anything from Amazon because of his abject treatment of employees, but I will now definitely never buy anything from him.

nls5.bsky.social•16 hours ago

The question remains, why are there not many many more people unsubscribing.

carolyncbarthel.bsky.social•15 hours ago

We are unsubscribing. When my husband looked into it, he discovered our subscription wouldn't end till November.

nls5.bsky.social•15 hours ago

👍🏻

scwr.bsky.social•16 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR0JPnmVC38

toofarwest4comfort.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Archived and non-paywalled link:

https://archive.is/zzUs0

brewski787.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Awe, snowflake progressive is crying because her boss woke up

passonx.bsky.social•15 hours ago

What is this "why I left it" shit?

Just leave!

winetast3r.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I don’t understand your response. Of course we want to know why she chose to leave. She has been a fixture at the post for four decades.

passonx.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Sorry. It is WaPo. I give them no credence now.

No one has to justify their decision to leave.

Hence, just leave.

bitterrage.bsky.social•13 hours ago

From Bezos Apr 15, 2021:

“Democracies are not normal. Tyranny is the historical norm. If we stopped doing all of the continuous hard work that is needed to maintain our distinctiveness in that regard, we would quickly come into equilibrium with tyranny.”

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/2020-letter-to-shareholders

drewlawson.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Interestingly, her sequence was similar to mine for unsubscribing: the endorsement, the Telnaes cartoon, the Wemple column, and finally her column.

I clung to hope that I was seeing a pattern that wasn't real.

cajunjoe.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Trash rag

nancydreyer.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Good opportunity to watch the new Katherine Graham documentary. She and Ben Bradlee are rolling over in their graves.

connieschultz.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Loved it.

wossamotta.bsky.social•16 hours ago

We have to hope something stronger rises from the ashes of the old media.

frankjeweetwelwie.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Living in the Netherlands, I don't have a subscription on the Washington Post. I had heard about Bezos new stupid instructions, and all I can do - and did - is canceling my subscription for Amazon Prime and never ever buy anything from Amazon. Bezos is dead in my book.

jennyperlin.bsky.social•16 hours ago

any chance to get a free version of this essay? thx!

gabbyh609.bsky.social•15 hours ago

here to say the same 👍

hendrixgirl.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Unfortunately, I would have to subscribe to the New Yorker to read this.

coolrickjd.bsky.social•16 hours ago

So good to find you here. How’s Sherrod? Is he going to run for senate again in 2026? He was the best senator for labor we’ve ever had.

nsignificannot.bsky.social•13 hours ago

WaPo is dark.

cathypaddock.bsky.social•15 hours ago

📌

laurastoobusy.bsky.social•13 hours ago

💔

riz4robot.bsky.social•16 hours ago

hopefully hell has no fury like a journalist silenced

gvnmcly.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Enuf w the hero worship. WaPo had become primarily a tool of corporate PR more than a decade ago-and thats being generous. This stuff is at best symbolic. Leave journalism to the real journalists who do original reporting that actually means something and makes a difference...

kc238.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Thank you Ruth Marcus.

weboptimist.bsky.social•15 hours ago

#BoycottAmazon

womynjustice.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Pay wall.

dwallick.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Thanks for posting this. The Post has lost a wise and profoundly educated voice. I still have my subscription because it appears the news side is still free to do journalism … but it’s getting harder to hang on.

yrigoytia.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Articles like this behind a paywall?

wholetree.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Democracy has died in darkness.

saskiatavares.bsky.social•15 hours ago

No. In fact it has died in broad daylight. In full view of everybody. Good luck, America. You used to be my home away from home.

wholetree.bsky.social•15 hours ago

It was a play on the motto of the paper.... using nuance and snarky wit easily baffles the cult. If it isn't literal, they often get confused as to the point... and it is beautiful.

saskiatavares.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Yes, I do know this idiotic motto, have written them many times „No! Democracy dies in broad daylight.“ Never got an answer. So I seized the chance to push it home one last time. No one cares, I know. And still … !

mrtruscott.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Along with most of my subscriptions to the former pillars of the fourth estate.

I’m diverting my money to better places.

I mean, Wired Magazine is outflanking most of the former greats.
Long live the free press.

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