Capehart: Washington Post dismantling is a threat to democracy
February 5, 2026
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as posted by the channelMS NOW’s Jonathan Capehart, who spent 18 years as an opinion writer at The Washington Post, on why the latest round of layoffs and turmoil is a threat to democracy.
“The slogan adopted by Bezos’ Washington Post in Trump’s first term was: Democracy dies in darkness. Given what Bezos and Lewis did today — The Washington Post will be complicit in killing it.”
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