Former Washington Post Editor Torches Jeff Bezos Over Newsroom Cuts
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Marty Baron blasted the publication’s billionaire owner for “sickening efforts to curry favor” with President Donald Trump.
A legendary former editor of The Washington Post has called out the decision to gut the paper’s newsroom, calling it one of the “darkest days” in the publication’s history and torching billionaire owner Jeff Bezos for “sickening efforts to curry favor” with President Donald Trump.
Marty Baron, who was editor of The Post from 2012 until his retirement five years ago, wrote in a statement: “This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world’s greatest news organizations.”
He added, “The Washington Post’s ambitions will be sharply diminished, its talented and brave staff will be further depleted, and the public will be denied the ground-level, fact-based reporting in our communities and around the world that is needed more than ever.”
He singled out Bezos’ “ill-conceived” decision to end The Post’s tradition of endorsing presidential nominees at the 2024 presidential election, calling it a “gutless order” that “now stands out only for its moral infirmity.”
“Loyal readers, livid as they saw owner Jeff Bezos betraying the values he was supposed to uphold, fled The Post. In truth, they were driven away, by the hundreds of thousands,” he said.
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