Martin Baron
Former WashPost Editor Fears Financial Scrutiny of Public Broadcasting
With the Trump administration and Congress focused on cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal budget, there’s an effort underway to make sure public broadcasting ended up under the microscope. The notion that public broadcasting would be held to any form of accountability, including the possibility they broke federal law, was apparently beyond the pale for former Washington Post…
PBS: Amanpour Laments Media ‘Kiss-the-Ring Progression to Mar-a-Lago’
Amanpour & Co. host Christiane Amanpour talked to former Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron about Trump’s “massive chilling effect” on the press on Wednesday, and added another metaphor to describe the media supposedly bowing down to Trump’s threats (since when!): Amanpour: "...we're seeing quite a lot of media and like the tech streaming titans and all the…
NPR Airs Hour of Leftist Shrieking About Trump's Revenge on the Press
On Wednesday's Fresh Air, NPR host Terry Gross put on ex-Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron and New Yorker editor David Remnick for another.44-minute rehash of all the pompous talk about how Donald Trump hates "fact-based" journalism as it's published by these two propaganda organs for the left. It was especially humorous when Baron complained "I would…
Column: When the Media's Humility Died in Darkness
Insular media elites have a nasty habit of thinking they represent Democracy. They aren’t a half or a third of Democracy. They own it. Like they’ve trademarked it. Anyone who dares to attack them is attacking Democracy. The most obvious example is The Washington Post and their arrogant motto “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
Ex-WashPost Editor Implies Any Interview with Trump Is a 'Big Mistake'
On Friday, former Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron appeared on their Washington Post Live to promote his new book on leading the Post in the Trump years. Baron implied any interview with Donald Trump is a big mistake. It's just "giving him a platform, he controls the conversation." In essence, unless the press can "win," Trump should be denied.
LOL at CBS: Ex-WashPost Editor Claims We Hold Everyone Accountable
Nobody gets easier treatment from the liberal media than....the liberal media. CBS, which sees itself as a Watergate legend, is automatically going to honor The Washington Post as a fellow Watergate legend...and they'll show movie clips to glamorize it.
WashPost Boss Cracks Us Up: We're Not 'Attached' to the Democrats!
Retiring Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron did a round of atta-boy interviews with liberal media outlets. “A legend stepping down but not stepping away,” gushed Brian Stelter on Sunday’s Reliable Sources. Baron said it's a "myth" that they're elitist, and "There's also this notion that we're somehow ideologically attached to a party, the Democratic Party, and that…
Scoop: Bob Woodward Planned to Burn Kavanaugh as Anonymous Source
New York Times media columnist Ben Smith unfurled a scoop on Monday from inside the newsroom of The Washington Post. In 2018, at the height of the confirmation wars over the Brett Kavanaugh nomination to the Supreme Court, “legendary” Nixon-ruining Post reporter Bob Woodward was going to disclose that Kavanaugh had been anonymous source for one of his books.
WashPost Editor's Arrogant Harvard Speech: We Embody 'Facts and Truth'
WashPost Skipped Immigration Status In Brutal Murder of Muslim Girl
Top WashPost Editor Rants About Team Trump 'Disqualifying' the Press
ICYMI: Federalist’s Sean Davis Throws Liberal Media Through a Buzzsaw
Bozell & Graham Column: The Vast Anti-Kavanaugh Conspiracy
