On PBS, Ruth Marcus Falsely Accuses Bezos of Trying to ‘Limit Dissent’ at WaPo

EXCERPT:

MARCUS: “I had, among other comments, a lot of people from the — who are viewers of the NewsHour, saying, ‘We hope we will see you there.’ So I’m very grateful that you’re having me, even though I’m kind of professionally unhoused for the moment. I decided to — I had to resign because I could no longer tell my readers that I was able to write what I wanted about the things that I thought were most important to say. And what happened was, back in October, when Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post, decided not to run the already drafted endorsement of Kamala Harris and not to run presidential endorsements later, I disagreed with that decision and I wrote a column expressing my, I thought, polite disagreement with that decision. And it ran. When Jeff Bezos decided that he was going to shift that — the opinion section more broadly in a way to limit dissent, as David pointed out on this segment when Jonathan was here, I also wrote a column. And that column, I had to write it because it was what I believed. I had written a previous column. That column didn’t run. And when that column didn’t run, I knew that my time at The Post had come to an end because I could no longer write what I wanted to say.”