Time to cue up some Freddie Mercury and Queen again for another exodus from the newspaper that used to believe that ‘Democracy Dies In Darkness.’
‘Ba-da-bum-bum-bum … Another one bites the dust. And another one gone, and another one gone …’
The latest venerable apparatchik to exit stage far-left is none other than 40-year veteran columnist Ruth Marcus.
We’ll try to hold back our tears.
Marcus’s departure gets even funnier when framed by another leftist outlet, NPR. Here is how they described it:
A top political columnist for The Washington Post resigned Monday, accusing Post Chief Executive and Publisher Will Lewis of killing her column that criticized owner Jeff Bezos’ drive to overhaul the opinion pages to focus on his libertarian priorities.
Post columnist and Associate Editor Ruth Marcus, who has worked at the paper for four decades, says she can no longer stay there.
‘Jeff’s announcement that the opinion section will henceforth not publish views that deviate from the pillars of individual liberties and free markets threatens to break the trust of readers that columnists are writing what they believe, not what the owner has…
Read the full article here