Former Washington Post writer unveils rejected Bezos column that led to her resignation

Jeff Bezos recently handed down a mandate that the Washington Post’s opinion section will devote itself to defending two pillars: free markets and personal liberties. - (Associated Press)

Ruth Marcus, who recently quit The Washington Post after more than four decades at the storied newspaper, unveiled in The New Yorker on Wednesday the rejected column about Jeff Bezos’ new opinion mandate that led to her resignation.

“My job is supposed to be to tell you what I think, not what Jeff Bezos thinks I should think,” Marcus wrote in the opinion piece that she claims was nixed by the Post’s embattled publisher Will Lewis.