Ruth Marcus, a veteran journalist at The Washington Post, resigned following the rejection of her critical column about changes made under owner Jeff Bezos, which she believed aimed to align with President Trump. In her piece for The New Yorker, she provides context for her resignation and includes the nixed column, asserting it was mild in tone and meant to constructively critique the paper's direction. Her experience highlights concerns over editorial freedom at the Post and the implications of corporate influence on journalism.
You can read the column in full below, but - spoiler alert - if you're craving red meat, brace for tofu. I wrote the piece in the hope of getting it published and registering a point, not to embarrass or provoke the paper's management.
I tried, as you will see if you read the column, to give the editors a way to get to yes. I made almost no mention of Bezos's post-election efforts to cozy up to Trump.
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