Posted on 04/03/2025 4:19:20 PM PDT by Libloather
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, an MSNBC contributor and staunch critic of President Trump, said he’s quitting after owner Jeff Bezos’ “significant shift” in the paper’s mission — joining an exodus of journalists at the beleaguered broadsheet.
“The announced ‘significant shift’ in our section’s mission has spurred me to decide that it’s time for my next chapter,” Robinson announced in a memo to fellow staffers on Thursday.
“I wish nothing but the very best for the paper and for all of you. I won’t be a stranger, and I’ll be reading your unparalleled work every single day.”
Bezos, the billionaire Amazon owner, said in February that the left-leaning publication’s opinion pages would shift their coverage to better reflect American values like “personal liberties and “free markets.”
Robinson, who has written for the op-ed page since 2005, is the third Washington Post staffer to leave the paper since Bezos’ edict.
Ex-opinion editor David Shipley quit as soon as the revamp was announced, and longtime columnist Ruth Marcus departed in March, after she said publisher Will Lewis “spiked” a column “expressing concern” over Bezos’ new direction for the section.
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Robinson has been on there.
Showing their true colors
Katharine Graham’s father was a relatively conservative businessman. It was Ben Bradlee and Graham’s husband, Phil Graham, who took the paper leftwards.
The mission of true news media is to report the news, unbiased and unfiltered. Idiots.
WIKI
Eugene Harold Robinson (born March 12, 1954) is an American newspaper columnist, associate editor of The Washington Post, author, and chief political analyst. His columns are syndicated to 262 newspapers by The Washington Post Writers Group. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009, was elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2011 and served as its chair from 2017 to 2018. Robinson is chief political analyst at NBC News and MSNBC.
In 1976, he began his journalism career at the San Francisco Chronicle; his early assignments included the trial of publishing heiress Patty Hearst. He joined The Washington Post in 1980. Working his way up through the ranks, he was first a city hall reporter at the paper. He then became the assistant city editor; a South America correspondent based in Buenos Aires, Argentina; London bureau chief; foreign editor; and, most recently, the assistant managing editor of the paper’s Style section. He began writing columns for the opinion page of the paper in 2005, also writes a twice-a-week column on politics and culture, and conducts a weekly online conversation with readers.
Robinson appears frequently as a liberal political analyst on MSNBC cable-TV network’s programs such as Morning Joe, PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton, The Rachel Maddow Show, The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, and Andrea Mitchell Reports. In addition, he is often a panelist on NBC’s public affairs program Meet the Press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Robinson_(journalist)
Self-deporting
If I bought a major newspaper my first act would be to poll my workers, are you a Democrat or not?
All those that answered yes
would be fired.
A neutral paperboy would be a much better content editor
( with some educated journalist help) than any partisan.
of either party.
Im in before the Well Bye pic???
Bye Felicia
The paper’s mission is whatever Jeff Bezos wants it to be.
He’s the owner. It’s his property.
But then, Communists don’t believe in private property............
The NY Post has journalist? Who knew.
Hopefully never to be heard from again
funny.. one would “think” the papers mission.. would be to ... I don’t know.. report the news!!!
Ain’t Affirmative Action wonderful.
Washington Post communist Eugene Robinson,.....
This is perfect. Put the liberals all together where they are comfortable. Their ratings and rate of individual success will be lower than ever, which fits for a suicide cult.
“Columnist Eugene Robinson exits Washington Post after Jeff Bezos’ ‘significant shift’ in paper’s mission”
and another one bites the dust, bites the dust ...
i wonder if eugene is now gonna start a podcast that no one will listen to like the rest of the kommie “columnists” who have already bailed? ...
Psssst... Nobody needs printed newspapers anymore... Pass it on...
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