The generous buyout offer from Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has been too hard for a number of top reporters and editors to turn down.

But for one columnist, leaving was coming no matter what. The reason: Bezos wanted “positive things happening in this country” to be covered “unapologetically patriotic.”

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For left-wing writer Jonathan Capehart, also a contributor to PBS and MSNBC, that was too much to ask. “There was just not going to be any room for a voice like mine,” he said on the NewsHour.

For PBS, which lost taxpayer support in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act due to

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