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Nonilex…[<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MartyBaron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MartyBaron</a> said], <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bezos</a>’ closer proximity to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> at the inauguration & through <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a>’s production deal on a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MelaniaTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MelaniaTrump</a> documentary did not appear to fulfill his public goal of increasing the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WashingtonPost</a>’s independence. “It was a sign of dependence, not independence—the dependence of Amazon, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> & Bezos on Donald Trump," he wrote.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MafiaState</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kleptocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FourthEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FourthEstate</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreePress</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trumpaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trumpaganda</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ViewPointDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ViewPointDiscrimination</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

Nonilex“There is no doubt in my mind that he is doing this out of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fear</a> of the consequences for his other business interests, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> (the source of his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wealth</a>) & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> (which represents his lifelong passion for space exploration),” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MartyBaron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MartyBaron</a> wrote Wednesday. “He has prioritized those commercial interests over The Post, & he is betraying The Post’s longstanding <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/principles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#principles</a> to do so.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bezos</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WashingtonPost</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MafiaState</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kleptocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FourthEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FourthEstate</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

Nonilex“It was only weeks ago that The Post described itself as providing coverage for ‘all of America,’” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MartyBaron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MartyBaron</a> wrote in his statement. “Now its opinion pages will be open to only some of America, those who think exactly as he does.”…Baron also accused <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bezos</a> of acquiescing to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> & the his attacks on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#press</a> for his own business interests.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MafiaState</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kleptocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FourthEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FourthEstate</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreePress</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trumpaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trumpaganda</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ViewPointDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ViewPointDiscrimination</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MartyBaron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MartyBaron</a> — played by Liev Schriber in Oscar-winning movie Spotlight—served as the paper’s executive editor from early 2013, months before <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bezos</a> purchased the Post, through to early 2021. He documented his relationship w/the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> founder in his book Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, & the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WashingtonPost</a>.In his statement, Baron wondered how Bezos’ support for personal liberties squared with his mandate for limited views on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opinion</a> pages.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FourthEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FourthEstate</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bezos</a> said on Wed he would mandate the paper’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/opinions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opinions</a> section to focus on supporting <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeMarkets</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PersonalLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PersonalLiberties</a>, saying those pieces w/opposing views can “be left to be published by others.”The move was rebuked by current & former <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WashingtonPost</a> staffers, though it was praised in a trolling post by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s WH.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MartyBaron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MartyBaron</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FourthEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FourthEstate</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreePress</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trumpaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trumpaganda</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ViewPointDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ViewPointDiscrimination</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

NonilexLegendary <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WashingtonPost</a> Editor, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MartyBaron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MartyBaron</a>, Slams <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bezos</a> for ‘Betraying’ Paper with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> MakeoverFmr WaPo executive editor Marty Baron condemned <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JeffBezos</a>’ revamp of the paper’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/opinions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opinions</a> section in a statement to the Daily Beast, saying he was “sad & disgusted” by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billionaire</a>’s demands.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FourthEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FourthEstate</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreePress</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trumpaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trumpaganda</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ViewPointDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ViewPointDiscrimination</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-wapo-editor-marty-baron-sad-and-disgusted-at-bezos-opinions-overhaul/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-wapo-editor-marty-baron-sad-and-disgusted-at-bezos-opinions-overhaul/</a>

NonilexMaraniss said: “I find this contemptible. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MartyBaron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MartyBaron</a> is right. This is an act not of benign neutrality but of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cowardice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cowardice</a> in the face of the biggest challenge to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> in our post-WWII lifetimes.“<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BenBradlee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BenBradlee</a>, ten years dead, is mightily p---ed in his grave.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FourthEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FourthEstate</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/acquiescence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#acquiescence</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaPo</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WashingtonPost</a>

Nonilex“This is <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cowardice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cowardice</a>, a moment of darkness that will leave <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> as a casualty. Donald Trump will celebrate this as an invitation to further intimidate The Post’s owner, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JeffBezos</a> (& other media owners),” former Post executive editor <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MartyBaron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MartyBaron</a>, who led the paper while <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> was president, said in a text message to The Post. “History will mark a disturbing chapter of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/spinelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spinelessness</a> at an institution famed for courage.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FourthEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FourthEstate</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WashingtonPost</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaPo</a>

Nonilex“This is <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cowardice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cowardice</a>, w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> as its casualty,” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MartyBaron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MartyBaron</a> said in a post…. He added that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> would see it as an invitation to continue to try to intimidate <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JeffBezos</a>. “Disturbing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/spinelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spinelessness</a> at an institution famed for courage.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaPo</a>’s move follows unfurling tumult at The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LATimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LATimes</a>, where the head of the editorial board & 2 of its writers have resigned this week to protest the decision by the owner, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billionaire</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PatrickSoonShiong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PatrickSoonShiong</a>, to block a planned presidential <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/endorsement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#endorsement</a>.

NonilexThe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WashingtonPost</a>’s editorial writers had already drafted an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/endorsement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#endorsement</a> of VP <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KamalaHarris</a> for president….<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaPo</a>’s editorial board had contacted the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Harris</a> campaign & the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> campaign to request interviews ahead of its decision to endorse…. Harris declined the interview & the Trump campaign didn’t respond….WaPo’s decision drew immediate blowback on social media, including from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MartyBaron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MartyBaron</a>, the recent editor of WaPo who led the paper through a period of editorial & business success.

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