Former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin joined MSNBC on Saturday and criticized her former employer, accusing the Post of trying to “ingratiate herself” with President Donald Trump.
“They seem to think that their media should be muzzled, should be quieted, should not bother Donald Trump so much. And so you see, for example, the refusal to endorse Donald Trump, which is the editorial position Per the Los Angeles Times“Owned by another billionaire, and the Washington Post,” she said.
Rubin, a former conservative writer who declared during the first Trump administration that she was He is no longer conservative She recently left the newspaper after its owner, Jeff Bezos, blocked the editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
“You see these billionaires are giving money to the President of the United States. And they're holding it up there on the dais. That's not how a free, independent press behaves. Their obligation is to the public, not to themselves, to advance their own interests. Business, and certainly not to get close to From Donald Trump.
A former WaPo columnist criticizes the newspaper after leaving and creating a new outlet during an interview on MSNBC. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
Paul Krugman, a former New York Times columnist, spoke to the Columbia Journalism Review about why he is leaving the paper in 2024 and said he is being muzzled at the Times, Rubin said.
“Paul Krugman has just given an interview to the Columbia Journalism Review, explaining that he was asked to write less, and that he was edited more. This is Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winner and enormous voice in economics, who has been essentially muzzled,” she added. “If journalists allow this to happen, if they allow the owners and the big conglomerates to oppress and repress what they say, then they are enabling the authoritarian regime as well.”
As Krugman claimed During the interview he said he was treated very differently than he had been in the past at the New York Times.
Rubin joins several high-profile staffers who have also announced their departures to other outlets, including reporters Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Michael Shearer, Tyler Page and Leigh-Anne Caldwell, columnist Charles Lane, health and science editor Stephen Smith and veteran editor Mattia Gould.
Washington Post political commentator Jennifer Rubin ((Screenshot/Gutfeld!))
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Rubin announced a new media outlet she has created with CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen, which she pledged is “overtly pro-democracy,” during an MSNBC interview.
In a statement about her decision to leave the position, Robin told the paper It has gone from bad to worse.
Rubin said the Washington Post “failed miserably at a time when we desperately need a strong, aggressive free press.”
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“The corporate and billionaire owners of major media have betrayed the loyalty of their audiences and sabotaged journalism's sacred mission — to defend, protect, and advance democracy. The billionaire owner of The Washington Post and its corporate management are among the culprits,” Rubin wrote.
Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.
