Washington Post Legend Slams Bezos Over Leadership Drama
Simmering tensions at The Washington Post surrounding its new leadership appear to be boiling over, with one of the newspaper’s most esteemed figures now publicly criticizing its owner, Jeff Bezos.
David Maraniss, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and associate editor at the Post, wrote on Facebook Wednesday that he doesn’t know “a single person” at the publication who thinks the ongoing drama surrounding new CEO and publisher Will Lewis “can stand.” “There might be a few,” Maraniss added, “[B]ut very very few.”
“Jeff Bezos owns the Post but he is not of and for the Post or he would understand,” Maraniss wrote. “The issue is one of integrity not resistance to change.”