Former Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus detailed her in detail Exit from paper On Wednesday for The New Yorker, calling for a paper publisher for the murder of her column critical of the paper owner, Jeff Cesos, just weeks after he announced major changes in the opinion section.
“I stayed while I could no longer – until the newspaper owner Jeff Bezos, did not issue an edict who Fast The offer of opinion would from now on to focus on the twins of the ‘personal freedom and free markets’ columns, and, even more worrying, that “the views opposed to these columns will leave them to be published by others.” I stayed up to Fast The publisher, Will Lewis, killed the column I endured last week, expressing my disagreement with this new direction. Lewis refused my request to meet, ” Marcus wrote.
Several Washington Post employees have left the paper from Bezos blocked the editorial board to approve of former Vice -President Kamal Harris in the 2024 elections over President Donald Trump. In February, Bezos announced that the opinion section would be focused on writing “in support and defense of two pillars: personal freedom and free markets.”
Marcus explained that they told her that they were a multiple column she wrote that she did not agree with the Bezos’s direction for an opinion “did not go through the” tall tape “necessary to write about herself”.
Andrew Ross Sorkin and Jeff Bezos speak on stage during the New York Times meeting at the 2024 meeting at the Lincoln Center on December 4, 2024 in New York. ((Photo Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for the New York Times))
“It was” too speculative “because we couldn’t know, until the new editor of the opinion was not appointed, what kind of impact of a new direction would be,” Marcus wrote, noting the feedback she received from Mary Duenwald, a replacement editor of the post on Post. “I know about any other episode in Washington PublishAnd I checked with long -standing employees at work when the publisher ordered the killed column. “
Marcus said that the “too much speculative” pronunciation had taken the rim “for the stupid fool, which he certainly was not.”
“He Announced a Change in Direction, and We Should took Him at his Word, Not Assume That It Was Meaningles, or That He Woul forget About the Idea. Maintaining the Trust of Our Readers. And Askad to Speak with Lewis.
Marcus, who has worked in his work for 40 years, also called in his letter of resignation the published publisher Will Lewis for the killing of a column and said that the freedom of the columnist was to write about what they wanted to be “dangerously eroded”.
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Former Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus detailed the piece for The New Yorker why she left the article after her editor killed a column criticizing Jeff Besos. (Left: (Photo Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images), right: (Photo Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images))
Marcus described what she believed that a heart change through Besos’s ownership of the Washington post, noting that he had approved the former President of Biden with “without a disagreement from the owner”.
“I wish we could go back to the newspaper not so far away. But that’s not, and here’s the inevitable truth: Washington Publish I joined, the one I fell in love, not Washington Publish I left, “she concluded.
Marcus joined several employees who left the place including the former Columnist Jennifer Rubin, who was also very critical of the paper owner after departure.
Marcus also included in his article in New Yorker The Column, who was killed, who reprimanded Besos changes in the opinion section.
“There was one thing when the owner decided to pronounce the presidential approval. The editorial page, which consists of incomplete editorial staff, reflects the owners’ attitudes. Signed opinions express the views of their creator. My job should tell you what I mean, not what Jeff Semos thinks you should think,” she wrote. ”
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