“Here is the unavoidable truth: the Washington Post I joined, the one I came to love, is not the Washington Post I left.” Ruth Marcus writes about her decision to resign from the paper in the wake of editorial changes made by its owner, Jeff Bezos.
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It’s as if there is a plague of gremlins tearing through US culture and institutions shredding the past and the future. People need to stand up, organise, “we’ve had enough, we’re not taking any more shit from GOP and rabid billionaires”. Refuse to comply. Legal protections need to kick in.
Trump isn’t negotiating with Putin—he’s obeying him. From wanting Canada as the 51st state to eyeing Greenland and the Panama Canal, it’s all about justifying Putin’s Greater Russia dream. America, don’t be fooled!
Democracy died in November and for WaPo readers, and darkness kept in. It broke my heart to cancel my subscription that I had since August 1986. I hope that other news media stay strong in the face of the repeated violations of the First Amendment. I switched to The Times.
The saddest part of this is that large segments of the American public don't care. They get their news from Tik Tok, Reddit, or God know where, and think an article written by some AI chatbot is a wonderful idea.
Cancelled WaPo after they scuttled the Harris endorsement in October. Also cancelled Amazon Prime and Audible. I will never use anything that benefits Bezos ever again.
“I stayed...until the newspaper’s owner Jeff Bezos issued an edict that the Post’s opinion offerings would henceforth concentrate on the twin pillars of 'personal liberties and free markets,' and, even more worrisome, that 'viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.'”
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