Sitting down with Vanity Fair in his Berkshires home, the celebrated former Post executive editor gets candid about his new memoir, in which he opens up about staff unrest, Jeff Bezos, and Donald Trump: “The press is still struggling with him in the way that the press in other countries has really struggled to cover autocrats.”
On a recent rainy Monday, I drove up to the Berkshires, took a few wrong turns on narrow rural roads, and was finally greeted in the driveway of a well-appointed home by the man
Trump’s New York Fraud Trial Kicks Off With News He’ll Be Tried Without a Jury Because His Lawyers Didn’t File the Paperwork for OneTruth be told, more people were sympathetic to management’s side than the public outrage would have led you to believe. But even some of Baron’s sympathizers might not enjoy these sections of—where a number of reporters and editors had read advanced copies—that he’d relitigated the imbroglios at length.
Trump’s New York Fraud Trial Kicks Off With News He’ll Be Tried Without a Jury Because His Lawyers Didn’t File the Paperwork for Onejust seven months after Baron became executive editor. Throughout the book, Baron portrays Bezos as a model owner in terms of the investments he made, the support he provided at difficult moments, and, above all, the promise he kept about not interfering with the newsroom’s reporting, even when it focused on Amazon or Bezos himself.
All the same, surely there must be a downside to being owned by Jeff Bezos? “The downside is that we were subject to suspicion, that people would say our coverage of a politician is a result of his commercial interest.. And people accused us of self-censoring, for which they had zero evidence. Frankly, the biggest downside was when he was less involved. In the last couple of years I was there, he wasn’t as engaged as I wish he had been.
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