Ex-insider spills dirt on Trump-related Washington Post turmoil
The Washington Post has been undergoing turmoil that began when the newspaper's leadership decided to ax a planned endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and then continued this year when the paper spiked a cartoon mocking Post owner and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Now Semafor reports that former Post democracy editor Mary Jo Murphy spilled dirt about the paper's leadership during a private message on a Facebook page for alumni of the New York Times.
"Quislings are inside the house that Grahams and Bradlees, Woodwards and Bernsteins built," she said, referring to the pejorative often used to describe Nazi collaborators.
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She went on to claim that Post CEO Will Lewis one time asked her about what the paper could do to attract more supporters of President-elect Donald Trump and she replied, "I dunno... lie to them?"
The Post has seen an exodus of talent in recent weeks that is no longer just affecting the opinion section but the news coverage as well.
Josh Dawsey, a longtime political investigations reporter at the Post, revealed this week that he is moving to the Wall Street Journal, although he didn't say directly whether this decision was related to any policies being made by the Post's leadership team.