One other far left journalist is leaving the Washington Submit, this time their ‘reality checker’ Glenn Kessler.
The explanation so many liberal journalists are leaving the WaPo is as a result of Jeff Bezos, the paper’s present proprietor, desires the paper to start specializing in problems with liberty somewhat than simply being a mouthpiece for the Democrat get together. He provided a buyout to any staffers who felt they couldn’t get in line.
The people who find themselves leaving are mainly admitting that they don’t need to work in an atmosphere that doesn’t permit them to be Democrat activists.
FOX Information reviews:
Longtime Washington Submit reality checker takes buyout, says paper has but to search out alternative earlier than exit
The person behind The Washington Submit’s “Pinocchios” is leaving the paper with out anybody to fill his footwear.
Glenn Kessler, the editor of The Truth Checker, introduced Monday he has taken a buyout, ending his prolonged profession on the Submit.
“After greater than 27 years at The Washington Submit, together with nearly 15 as The Truth Checker, I will probably be leaving on July 31, having taken a buyout,” Kessler wrote on his Fb web page. “A lot as I might have favored to maintain scrutinizing politicians in Washington, particularly on this period, the monetary issues had been not possible to dismiss.”
Kessler stated he wrote or edited greater than 3,000 reality checks as editor and chief author of The Truth Checker.
“Once I began in 2011, there have been solely a handful of fact-checking organizations around the globe, and I’ve been thrilled to look at the motion increase throughout the globe. So many of those courageous and diligent reality checkers have turn into good associates,” Kessler wrote.
Throughout Trump’s first time period, Glenn Kessler saved a database to trace Trump’s supposed untruths. After the 2020 election, he determined the database was not wanted. That ought to let you know all the things that you must learn about him.
FOX Information reported in 2021:
Washington Submit ripped for ending Biden fact-checking database for remainder of his time period
Washington Submit fact-checker Glenn Kessler drew fierce criticism Monday after saying he didn’t plan to take care of a “database” for President Biden’s falsehoods past his first 100 days in workplace.
“I’ve discovered my lesson,” Kessler tweeted. “‘Realized my lesson’ means who is aware of what the following 4 years will convey.”
The Submit famously maintained a database of former President Donald Trump’s falsehoods throughout his total time period in workplace. Kessler referred to as it a “wild trip.”…
In a writeup within the soon-to-be-mothballed database, the Submit wrote the “Joe Biden period has provided a return to a extra typical sample in terms of a commander in chief and his relationship with the info — one which options frequent spin and obfuscation or exaggeration, with the occasional canard.”
That claims all of it. In Kessler’s world, Trump should be ‘reality checked’ endlessly. Democrats like Joe Biden bought the advantage of the doubt.
Kessler was one of many many journalists who defended Biden by pushing the ‘low-cost pretend’ narrative.
Glenn Kessler, the longtime “reality checker” behind the Washington Submit’s “Pinocchios,” introduced at the moment that he’s LEAVING the paper after 27 years.
Right here is only one instance of Kessler’s work pic.twitter.com/4aQbq4oHuv
— Day by day Caller (@DailyCaller) July 28, 2025
Kessler won’t be missed. He’ll in all probability find yourself on Substack like the remainder of his biased former WaPo colleagues.
