When journalist Ruth Marcus joined the Washington Post 40 years ago, the newspaper was attacking in the glory of their revelations that had led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, in 1974. Resonating with the mythical case of Watergate, the first scandal to shake the Trump 2 administration was the Dubbedal military operation in Yemen on March 15. The Atlanticwho broke the story, said the assent in his reports.
Marcus, the attached editor of the Washington Post Opinion section, reflected on the ancient glory of the newspaper when he resigned on March 10, with a heavy heart. He had just written a cautious column on the influence of Maga that Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post – I was trying to print in the opinion section. This piece, as he said with humor, was closer to Tofu than a juicy steak, in terms of criticism. It was censored. “He Washington Mail I joined, the one who came to love, is not the Washington Mail I left, “he wrote in the New Yorker.
Under the two imposing rose gold reflective turrets with a view to Franklin square, five blocks from the White House, the crisis continues over low heat in the Washington PostHeadquarters. On February 26, Bezos announced that editorial pages would now follow an ideological filter: yes to the opinions that support “individual freedoms” and “free markets”, not those who oppose these pillars. The words of the billionaire were vague, but the drafting room perceived them as a wink to Donald Trump. The editor of the opinion section, David Shipley, resigned, and has not yet been replaced.
Poisoned loyalty
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