Marty Baron On Jeff Bezos, The Washington Post And The Soul Of American Journalism
Marty Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, is seen ahead of the Democratic presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia, on Nov. 20, 2019.
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Sunday was Marty Baron’s last day as executive editor of The Washington Post. The legendary editor, along with the Post’s deep-pockets owner, Jeff Bezos, is widely credited with reviving the paper and restoring its status as one of the pre-eminent American newspapers. Five years ago GBH News contributor Dan Kennedy interviewed Baron for his book “The Return Of The Moguls: How Jeff Bezos And John Henry Are Remaking Newspapers For The Twenty-First Century.” An excerpt from the book follows.
The Washington Post’s coverage of the insurrectionist violence in Portland, Ore., is classic.
Reporters Marissa J. Lang and Kimberly Kindy acknowledge that those behind the violence, which has continued for months, are of the “far-left and anarchist” persuasion. But, though those individuals are engaged in “destructive tactics” and “vandalism,” and “burned an American flag” while confronting police (and some “threw large rocks” at federal officers, according to prosecutors), these insurrectionists cannot, of course, be described as “insurrectionists.” The media-Democratic complex reserves that designation for the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 and for Republican politicians who are said to have abetted them by supporting the former president’s effort to overturn the election.
Since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, 38 US Capitol Police employees have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the head of the officers' union said Saturday.
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