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WaPo Rejects an Ad Demanding Musk Be Fired
Is this the end of our democracy?
The Washington Post whose motto is “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is working on our democracy’s obituary.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, was quoted back in 2016 as saying about Trump:
“One of the things that makes this country as amazing as it is, we are allowed to criticize and scrutinize our elected leaders.”
And:
“To try and chill the media and threaten retribution and retaliation … it just isn’t appropriate.”
Someone needs to remind Bezos of his words because darkness is spreading outward from his paper like a fog that silently but inexorably rolls in. The first tendrils were discernable last fall when the Post refused to endorse a candidate in the 2024 election.
In early January, WaPo refused to run a cartoon depicting Bezos and other tech giants on their knees handing bags of cash to a statue of Trump. The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, Ann Telnaes, explained the cartoon like this:
“(The cartoon) criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump, satirizing these men with lucrative government contracts and…
