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The Star Washington Post is losing all kinds of talent and subscribers too, since Bezos bought the paper?!! I'm not a Star Washington Post
subscriber, but I can boycott Amazon though?!! We must maintain a free and independent media in this country, now more than ever?!!
The star Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin resigned from the paper Monday and took a parting shot at Jeff Bezos, its billionaire owner.
Driving her departure was recent executive decisions at the Post, she told CNN. That included its refusal to publish a satirical cartoon showing Bezos bending at the knee for Donald Trump and its blocking of a planned Kamala Harris endorsement last fall.
Rubin often pens columns from a conservative perspective but has been a staunch critic of the president-elect. She said Monday the Post has “failed spectacularly at a moment that we most need a robust, aggressive free press.”
It is that belief that led Rubin to announce that she was beginning a new media venture with a tagline—“Not Owned By Anybody”—that makes clear her disdain for Bezos’ ownership.
The 62-year-old indicated she will continue to write scathing columns about Trump at her new site, The Contrarian, which she launched Monday along with the CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen (who is also exiting his role).
“Our goal is to combat, with every fiber of our being, the authoritarian threat that we face,” Rubin told CNN.
She went more in depth in a statement shared with the Daily Beast: “We’ve watched as corporate and billionaire owners of media outlets abused their audiences’ loyalty and undercut journalism’s vital role in a free democracy. Instead of safeguarding democratic values, they have enabled the gravest threats to democracy—Donald Trump and his allies—at the very time when a robust and independent press is most essential. We need an alternative, truly independent outlet that is unafraid of the administration and unwilling to equivocate or bend the knee.”
The Contrarian is hosted by the Substack newsletter platform—like The Bulwark and Drop Site News, other recent additions to the media landscape—and will cost $7 a month. A handful of free articles are available at its launch, however.
Eisen, 64, said his vision for The Contrarian is a “defiant and uncompromising platform free from false equivalence.” He added that the U.S., on the verge of Trump 2.0, faces an “existential threat to American democracy.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/star-washington-post-columnist-torches-160931670.html
subscriber, but I can boycott Amazon though?!! We must maintain a free and independent media in this country, now more than ever?!!
The star Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin resigned from the paper Monday and took a parting shot at Jeff Bezos, its billionaire owner.
Driving her departure was recent executive decisions at the Post, she told CNN. That included its refusal to publish a satirical cartoon showing Bezos bending at the knee for Donald Trump and its blocking of a planned Kamala Harris endorsement last fall.
Rubin often pens columns from a conservative perspective but has been a staunch critic of the president-elect. She said Monday the Post has “failed spectacularly at a moment that we most need a robust, aggressive free press.”
It is that belief that led Rubin to announce that she was beginning a new media venture with a tagline—“Not Owned By Anybody”—that makes clear her disdain for Bezos’ ownership.
The 62-year-old indicated she will continue to write scathing columns about Trump at her new site, The Contrarian, which she launched Monday along with the CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen (who is also exiting his role).
“Our goal is to combat, with every fiber of our being, the authoritarian threat that we face,” Rubin told CNN.
She went more in depth in a statement shared with the Daily Beast: “We’ve watched as corporate and billionaire owners of media outlets abused their audiences’ loyalty and undercut journalism’s vital role in a free democracy. Instead of safeguarding democratic values, they have enabled the gravest threats to democracy—Donald Trump and his allies—at the very time when a robust and independent press is most essential. We need an alternative, truly independent outlet that is unafraid of the administration and unwilling to equivocate or bend the knee.”
The Contrarian is hosted by the Substack newsletter platform—like The Bulwark and Drop Site News, other recent additions to the media landscape—and will cost $7 a month. A handful of free articles are available at its launch, however.
Eisen, 64, said his vision for The Contrarian is a “defiant and uncompromising platform free from false equivalence.” He added that the U.S., on the verge of Trump 2.0, faces an “existential threat to American democracy.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/star-washington-post-columnist-torches-160931670.html
