“Brain Drain” continues at The Washington Post as columnist Jonathan Capehart exits

“No matter how one tries to avoid it, bad news keeps popping up” at The Washington Post as columnist Jonathan Capehart has resigned, states a commentary in Publishers Daily by Ray Schultz.

Schultz states: “He took a buyout on Monday, according to a post by Axios. This occurred after CEO Will Lewis pronounced that anyone who could not support the Post’s mission should accept a buyout and leave. So Capehart did.

“Of course, Capehart has a very high profile on TV. He appears as a commentator on PBS with David Brooks and is the co-host of MSNBC’s The Weekend. He will survive very nicely without the Post.”

Schultz adds that Capehart joins a growing list of departures from The Post. Specifically, he wrote:

Fellow columnist Joe Davidson recently resigned after one of his columns was spiked.

Ruth Marcus quit in March,  claiming that Post CEO Will Lewis killed a column she wrote. The subject: The effort by owner Jeff Bezos to reposition the opinion section of the Post to reflect a pro-market (and presumably more Trump) orientation.

Eugene Robinson resigned shortly after Marcus, saying, “The announced ‘significant shift’ in our section’s mission has spurred me to decide that it’s time for my next chapter.”

And, earlier this year, Jennifer Rubin resigned to start a  publication called The Contrarian with the former White House operative Norm Eisen.

Let’s not forget, Ann Telnaes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, who resigned over the rejection of her sketch, which is now being widely circulated on the internet.

Schultz then stated: “We apologize if we’ve forgotten anybody.”