Washington Post columnist who resigned over a spiked Bezos op-ed ‘fears’ readers can’t trust opinion writers | CNN Business

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Ruth Marcus, who recently resigned as a Washington Post columnist after four decades, said she parted ways with the paper following a spiked opinion piece on the paper’s billionaire owner because her job is to tell readers “what I think, not what Jeff Bezos thinks I should think.”

In a New Yorker piece that was published less than 48 hours after her resignation, Marcus shared more details about the events that led to her departure — and raised concerns about what Bezos’ changes could mean for the future of the paper’s opinion coverage.

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