Democracy Dies in Darkness, indeed.
The official slogan of The Washington Post seems more ironic than anything else these days. And it’s not just since Amazon billionaire (trillionaire?) Jeff Bezos bought the paper back in 2013, but more recently after Will Lewis from Rupert Murdoch’s The Wall Street Journal took over as CEO and publisher in January 2024. Cartoonist Michael DeAdder was soon let go in February, despite winning the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.
So, after the recent presidential non-endorsement killed by Jeff Bezos himself, we get yet another fiasco from of one of America’s premier newspapers. Or at least what used to be one of them. With ongoing antics at The New York Times and the LA Times, it could be argued there no longer is a national newspaper in the United States.
Source: BBC
