Marty Baron
speaker
584 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5 Feb
Marty Baron’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was a great news organization then.
It had faced many challenges.
But we grew.
We grew under the ownership of Jeff Bezos.
He acquired the paper about a year after I had been there.
And so he invested.
He invested.
He spoke on behalf of the mission of the Post.
He spoke on behalf of the mission of the press in this country, as you just made clear.
And so I felt that this announcement today represents a turn back.
It suggests that this newspaper with a deep heritage and historically high ambitions is going to retreat.
And it's a terrible thing to see a news organization that's been so important to the history of this country retreat the way that this newspaper is doing.
Well, I think I explain it by saying the words Donald Trump.
That's what happened, really.
Trump came into office again.
He had promised vengeance against his perceived political enemies.
Jeff Bezos was seen as a political enemy by Donald Trump for one reason and one reason only, and that was the coverage of The Washington Post.
We have been very aggressive in our coverage of Donald Trump, and I think for a good reason, because he was abusing his power as president.
And so we sought out to document that, and we did document that, and that's what a good news organization ought to do.
That's why we have the free press in this country.
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