Jennifer Rubin, the never-Trump columnist at the Washington Post, has announced that she is leaving the paper and blasted WaPo owner Jeff Bezos on her way out the door. The now-struggling paper has just gone through a round of layoffs.Rubin recently took a shot at the paper while also trashing Trump and Trump supporters during one of her typically unhinged rants.Rubin is joining a new anti-Trump outlet called the Contrarian, which I imagine will occupy the same space as anti-Trump outlets like the Dispatch and the Bulwark.FOX News reports:
Anti-Trump columnist Jennifer Rubin quits Washington Post, blasts owner Jeff BezosLongtime Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin has resigned from the embattled paper, Fox News Digital has confirmed.Rubin, an outspoken critic of President-elect Donald Trump, had recently publicly attacked the Washington Post, particularly its owner Jeff Bezos, for trying to become more politically neutral.”I fear that things are going from bad to worse at The Post,” Rubin told CNN in an interview about her exit.Rubin added that the Post “has failed spectacularly at a moment that we most need a robust, aggressive free press.”Rubin joins several high-profile staffers have announced departures for other outlets, including reporters Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer, Tyler Page and LeeAnn Caldwell, columnist Charles Lane, health and science editor Stephen Smith and veteran editor Matea Gold.
Mediaite has more on Rubin’s vitriolic exit comments:
“Jeff Bezos and his fellow billionaires accommodate and enable the most acute threat to American democracy—Donald Trump—at a time when a vibrant free press is more essential than ever to our democracy’s survival and capacity to thrive,” wrote Rubin in an introductory column at The Contrarian to announce her resignation from the Post, lamenting how “[c]orporate and billionaire owners of major media outlets have betrayed their audiences’ loyalty and sabotaged journalism’s sacred mission — defending, protecting and advancing democracy.”Rubin continued with a specific swipe at Bezos for not only blocking the paper’s editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris but for sending a tribute payment to Trump’s inauguration fund, along with condemning other media moguls who were similarly jostling to demonstrate their obeisance to the incoming second Trump administration:
The contradiction between, on the one hand, the journalistic obligation to hold the powerful accountable and, on the other, the financial interests of billionaire moguls and corporate conglomerates could not be starker. The Post’s own headline last month warned: “Trump signals plans to use all levers of power against the media; Press freedom advocates say they fear that the second Trump administration will ramp up pressure on journalists, in keeping with the president-elect’s combative rhetoric.” And yet The Post’s owner quashed a presidential endorsement for Trump’s opponent, forked over $1M for Trump’s inauguration through Amazon, and publicly lauded Trump’s agenda.
The news is inspiring quite a bit of mockery on Twitter/X:
Rubin is going to fade into obscurity with this move. I, for one, will not be sad to see her go away.
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