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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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>washingtonpost</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/freedomofthepress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedomofthepress</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ruthmarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ruthmarcus</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/jeffbezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jeffbezos</span></a></p>
Xamanismo Coletivo<p>"<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> columnist and Associate Editor <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a>, who has worked at the paper for four decades, says she can no longer stay there.<br>"Jeff's announcement that the opinion section will henceforth not publish views that deviate from the pillars of individual liberties and free markets threatens to break the trust of readers that columnists are writing what they believe,not what the owner has deemed acceptable," Marcus wrote in a resignation letter obtained by NPR."<br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/03/10/nx-s1-5323136/washington-post-editor-ruth-marcus-resigns" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/03/10/nx-s1-53231</span><span class="invisible">36/washington-post-editor-ruth-marcus-resigns</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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeffBezos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a><br>/4</p><p><a href="https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/sigh-vol-ix" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeffBezos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeffBezos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeffBezos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>npr</span></a></span>.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/DIsxm1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeffBezos</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> Department</p><p>- <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Judiciary</span></a> <br><a href="https://wapo.st/4hZcbbW" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wapo.st/4hZcbbW</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://progressivecafe.social/@MariaHill" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeWill</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@realjuddlegum/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>realjuddlegum</span></a></span>. <br>thank you for this excellent, concise piece that not only explains the seriousness of the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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://zirk.us/tags/lawyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawyers</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> (this coverage contributed to my dropping the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a>, I believe it was a <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> piece poo-pooing the case) about its seriousness (buttressed of course by calling it the hush money case).</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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawyers</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a>, I believe it was a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BadTakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadTakes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WTF</span></a></p>
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