Martin Baron
![](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_tiles_extra_small_default/s3/2023-10/CBS%20News%20Sunday%20Morning-9_21_44%20am-2023-10-01.jpg?itok=2ftqZVPN)
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.”
![](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_tiles_extra_small_default/s3/2023-10/Washington%20Post%20Live-12_18_07%20pm-2023-10-06.jpg?itok=MO4Wh545)
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.
![](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_tiles_extra_small_default/s3/2023-10/CBS%20News%20Sunday%20Morning-9_26_46%20am-2023-10-01.jpg?itok=D7p-9Iah)
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.
![](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_tiles_extra_small_default/s3/2021-03/Reliable%20Sources%20with%20Brian%20Stelter%20-%2011_00_01%20AM%20%287%29.jpg?itok=Psr4BvtU)
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…
![](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_tiles_extra_small_default/s3/2020-07/Woodward-Joe.jpg?itok=VTx4D-JA)
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.
![](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_tiles_extra_small_default/s3/images/2020-05-29_5.png?itok=EYhERnTW)
WashPost Editor's Arrogant Harvard Speech: We Embody 'Facts and Truth'
![](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_tiles_extra_small_default/s3/images/nabra-darwin_li.jpg?itok=1SXmw7b6)
WashPost Skipped Immigration Status In Brutal Murder of Muslim Girl
![](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_tiles_extra_small_default/s3/images/martybaron-wl.jpg?itok=ve2VSS76)
Top WashPost Editor Rants About Team Trump 'Disqualifying' the Press
![](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_tiles_extra_small_default/s3/images/2019-03-26-fnc-tct-seandavismuellermedia.jpg?itok=hHHJCXDB)
ICYMI: Federalist’s Sean Davis Throws Liberal Media Through a Buzzsaw
![](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_tiles_extra_small_default/s3/images/nbcnn-ramirez.jpg?itok=2Bk-4UIa)
Bozell & Graham Column: The Vast Anti-Kavanaugh Conspiracy
![](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_tiles_extra_small_default/s3/images/bstelt-aspen.jpg?itok=q0ncoJ8i)
Bozell & Graham Column: CNN Host Proclaims 'National Emergency'
![](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_tiles_extra_small_default/s3/images/martin-baron.jpg?itok=dTYMqK3V)
WashPost, NY Times Compete for Most Ludicrous Claim of Nonpartisanship
![](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_tiles_extra_small_default/s3/images/am.jpg?itok=1HvVXQ0m)
Mitchell Lauds 'Prescient' McCarthy Movie Showing TV News 'Courage'
![](https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_tiles_extra_small_default/s3/images/kelsey_harkness.jpg?itok=5rvhahW-)