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.
This is what happens when insecure oligarchs own all of the things. Soon there will be no dissenting opinions at all.
In 20 years after all journalists are fired or leave, The Onion will be the only news outlet left.
Giving me the same vibes as:
“You do not realize that Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars”
What i love about that is, depending on region, it wasn’t Taco Bell
Man, for people who have so much money and power, they really do have fragile egos. If I was someone with fuck you money, people’s opinions on me would be the least of my problems.
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.
It is not like we did not see this coming; a billionaire who controls the narrative.
Why don’t all these independent journalists just come together and form their own news organization
They sorta did… they called it ProPublica. Although they focus on investigative journalism and publish their work through other outlets rather than publishing the news themselves.
Because someone has to pay them so they can make a living doing it, and the public are very reluctant to pay for news.
Every time we complain about the pay walls and (demand that someone) paste the full article text then we’re making journalists beholden to people like Bezos. Wife and I used to subscribe to WaPo and NYT. Now it’s Wired and NYT.
Because every news wants to be “balanced” giving a voice to “both” sides.
News used to be more selective and actually INFORM you about an issue, instead of just letting two sides spew bullshit back and forth.
They have. The Intercept, 404 Media, The Breach, etc.
Here’s a list of American and Canadian independent media.
