Posted on 12/31/2024 3:34:37 PM PST by Libloather
Two top Washington Post reporters have defected from the Jeff Bezos-owned paper as it continues to reel following the billionaire’s decision to kill an endorsement of Kamala Harris.
Political correspondents Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer were poached by The Atlantic — owned by Laurene Powell Jobs — and will join the left-leaning magazine ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Their departures comes on the heels of a report Monday by Puck News that White House correspondent Tyler Pager and investigative reporter Josh Dawsey have been “mulling a transfer or have already decided to exit.”
The Beltway broadsheet has suffered an exodus of top talent — and a reported loss of more than 200,000 subscribers — since Bezos blocked the editorial board from endorsing the Democratic candidate just weeks before the election.
Three Opinions section members — David Hoffman, Molly Roberts and Robert Kagan — quit following the decision not to endorse any candidate for the first time in decades.
Bezos, the second-richest person in the world with a net worth valued by Bloomberg Billionaires Index at $241 billion, was a frequent target of Trump during his first term in office — mainly due to the Washington Post’s coverage of his administration.
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“too left-wing for the Washington Post”
Didn’t Bezos dial it back a bit at WaPo?
If you don’t go to J-School, how are you going to learn which pronouns to use?
There was an article this week that used “their,” “they,” “he,” and “she” in ONE sentence to describe ONE subject! That kind of specialized grammatical training required years of study at J-School. They have to undo all the English education students got in K to 12. That takes time.
i notice that none of the truly insane lunatics like Jennifer Rubin, Eugene Robinson, max boot, E.J. Dionne Jr., et al. are being “poached” ...
CALLING ANY OF THEM “TOP TALENT” is a serious joke.
In their defense it would be hard to have such strong leftist beliefs and pretend to be a moderate day after day. They are still just nasty, spoiled leftists.
Joe Rogan is real. He's an ordinary guy.
Everyone else is a propagandist for the Democratic Party.
Never heard of either one of those left wing activists.
Turns out it’s the Atlantic Magazine, which has undergone a far more dramatic transformation in roughly the last 5 years than the Dem Party has, since it was well on its way, and now has the Atlantic, once a serious, if mostly left leaning,magazine, that had a far larger audience than it does now.
Top talent my aching backside.
Full on Communist Totalitarians.
Further left?!
Not much further left to go...
Top talent?? Really? Liberal hacks who spew leftist lies and other misinformation are top talent? I guess at the post talent is defined as how well you lie
“What does it take to be a “top” reporter for the WP?”
Go to the fax machine. Get the latest from the DNC and reword it a little.
Could the rats be noticing the level of the water in the bilges?
First, you must be a biased scum-bag.
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