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Another Dark Day at the Bezos Post: Ruth Marcus Resigns After Censorship

The billionaire squeeze tightens as another respected journalist refuses to fall in line with Bezos's rightward push.

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Parker Molloy
Mar 10, 2025
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Just two weeks after Jeff Bezos announced his "free markets and personal liberties" mandate for the Washington Post opinion section, we've got our first high-profile casualty of this rightward authoritarian shift. Ruth Marcus, a columnist and associate editor who has spent four decades at the paper, resigned today after CEO Will Lewis killed her column …

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