Robinson, 71, has worked at the Post since 1980 and been a columnist since 2005, winning a Pulitzer Prize for his work focused on the election of Barack Obama as the nation’s first Black president in 2008.
In a memo to colleagues reported by The New York Times on Thursday, Robinson said the “significant shift” in the opinion section’s mission had encouraged him that it was time to move on.
Last month, columnist Ruth Marcus, who had worked at the newspaper since 1984, resigned after she said management decided not to run her commentary critical of Bezos’ policy. As the Post has faced turmoil in the past year, it has enforced a policy of not letting its staff members write about internal matters.
It’s not so much that they object to hearing those opinions, it’s that major news organizations’ opinion sections have a noticeable impact on the opinions of the wider public. Jeff Bezos probably doesn’t care that much about his staff’s opinion of him, but he would sure like it if they would make it their job to push 340 million people toward sharing his opinions.
Yeah, they object to us hearing those opinions, for much the same reason that the US the better part of a century crushing any even vaguely socialist movement or government within its sphere of influence: they don’t want ‘the poors’ getting any bright ideas.
This right here is the thing. Also, it helps when he wants the government to do a certain thing. People should all read up on Randolph Hearst, because that’s why guys like Bezos buy the Post and Musk buys Twitter.