"Corporate and billionaire owners of major media outlets have betrayed their audiences’ loyalty and sabotaged journalism’s sacred mission — defending, protecting and advancing democracy. The Washington Post’s billionaire owner and enlisted management are among the offenders. They have undercut the values central to The Post’s mission and that of all journalism: integrity, courage, and independence. I cannot justify remaining at The Post. Jeff Bezos and his fellow billionaires accommodate and enable the most acute threat to American democracy—Donald Trump—at a time when a vibrant free press is more essential than ever to our democracy’s survival and capacity to thrive.
"I therefore have resigned from The Post, effective today. In doing so, I join a throng of veteran journalists so distressed over The Post’s management they felt compelled to resign.
"The decay and
compromised principles of corporate and billionaire-owned media
underscore the urgent need for alternatives. Americans are eager for
innovative and independent journalism that offers lively, unflinching
coverage free from cant, conflicts of interest and moral equivocation..." -- Jennifer Rubin, in her new Substack venture with Norm Eisen, "The Contrarian," announcing her resignation from the Washington Post Bezos Bugle. Rubin has evolved from a neo-conservative to a never-Trumper to someone we would consider a valuable ally in the fight against the MF and his fascist, un-American agenda. She notes the new outlet "will include Joyce Vance, Andy Borowitz, Laurence Tribe, Katie
Phang, George Conway, Olivia Julianna, Harry Litman (who recently
resigned from the LA Times for reasons similar to mine for leaving the
Post), and Asha Rangappa..." Good for her and her co-creators, and another bad day for the Bezos Bugle.
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