Jennifer Rubin on Her New Media Outlet: ‘The Contrarian Is Overtly Pro-Democracy ... We’re Not Going to Let Democracy Die in Darkness’

RUSH EXCERPT:

RUBIN: "Washington Post, as you know, is a storied outlet owned by the Graham family that had a long tradition of standing up to power. One of the principles was that a newspaper owner shall not use the newspaper for his or her own financial advantage, and that is what is going on when you have media owners, including Jeff Bezos, who sees his own business quite apart from the media, in this case his spacex business, or Elon Musk’s business, that is dependent in large part upon the government. They seem to think that their own press outlet should be muzzled, should be quieted, should not upset Donald Trump so much. And so you see, for example, the refusal to endorse Donald Trump, which was the editorial position of both the la times, owned by another billionaire, and the Washington Post. You also see these billionaires giving money to the president of the United States. And yucking it up there on the dais.”