With Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart away, his former colleague Ruth Marcus stepped up to pinch-hit for him on Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour. At the end of the discussion with New York Times columnist David Brooks, Marcus claimed the reason she left the Post is because owner Jeff Bezos is trying “to limit dissent” at the paper despite dissent being alive and well at the Post.
Host Geoff Bennett asked, “Lastly, Ruth, it’s great to have you here. After an impressive and impactful career at the Washington Post, you decided to step down. Help us understand why.”
After beginning by thanking News Hour for having her on “even though I’m kind of professionally unhoused for the moment,” Marcus claimed, “I had to resign because I could no longer tell my readers that I was able to write what I wanted about the things…
