Marty Baron
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584 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5 Feb
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So he feared reprisal, reprisal against Amazon, which is the source of his wealth, and he feared that the object of his passion, which is Blue Origin, a private space company,
would not get the government contracts that it needed.
And so he has sought to navigate this administration during the second term.
And he's done a lot of things.
You laid them out at the beginning in your introduction, all of the things that he's done.
The problem is that by doing those things, he's driven away
the loyal subscribers to the Washington Post, because this is a newspaper that has prided itself on its independence.
And the behavior of Jeff Bezos has suggested to the readers that he is not independent at all.
He's actually dependent, dependent on Donald Trump.
Well, I'm concerned.
I mean, I think the Washington Post has continued to do a really good job of covering this administration, of holding it to account.
I mean, just the other day, they had a terrific story on administrative subpoenas that are sought to get the personal data, online data for people who have objected to this administration's policies.
It was a chilling story, a very important story and a high impact story.
I am concerned about our ability to endure this administration.
We're only one year into it.
We have three more years to go.
And the most recent behavior of the administration has suggested that they will put no limits on their aggressions against an independent press.
You cited in your introduction the raid on the home of Hannah Natanson, one of the reporters for The Washington Post.
They seized all of her electronic devices and they've extracted information from those devices.
So and then more recently, of course, we've seen the arrest of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for covering a protest.
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