muellershewrote - My Breakup with The Washington Post
Anyone who lived through Watergate, or who’s seen “The Post” or “All the President’s Men” knows The Washington Post has an incredible history of investigative reporting. From Deep Throat to the Pentagon Papers, the Post was on the frontlines of fearlessly speaking truth to power.
In 2016, the paper adopted its first slogan in 140 years: Democracy Dies in Darkness. Many attributed it to the Washington Post Watergate journalist Bob Woodward, but he says got it from a judge’s ruling in a First Amendment case. But just 8 years later, that slogan would become a little too on the nose.
I followed the Post and relied on their news during the Mueller investigation into Trump Campaign ties to Russia. Then in May, 2018, The Washington Post reported that then-president Trump had pushed the postmaster general to double the shipping costs for Amazon because he didn’t like the coverage he was getting at the paper. From the Post:
Few U.S. companies have drawn Trump’s ire as much as Amazon, which has rapidly grown to be the second-largest U.S. company in terms of market capitalization. For more than three years, Trump has fumed publicly and privately about the giant commerce and services company and its founder Jeffrey P. Bezos, who is also the owner of The Washington Post.
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