The Washington Post will not be replacing Kessler with another "fact" checker. Apparently the Post's new management has realized that left-wing "fact" checking is just Democrat-Communist propaganda dressed up to look like neutral reportage.
Kessler made that fact painfully clear, even to the water-heads of the Washington Post.
The Washington Post's chief fact checker accepted a buyout and is leaving the newspaper without a replacement.
Owner Jeff Bezos and CEO Will Lewis have taken a slew of recent steps to try and help the paper shed its left-wing reputation.
Glenn Kessler, editor and chief writer of The Fact Checker, announced on Monday that he is leaving the Post.
'After more than 27 years at The Washington Post, including almost 15 as The Fact Checker, I will be leaving on July 31, having taken a buyout,' Kessler said on Facebook.
'Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era, the financial considerations were impossible to dismiss.'
The fact checker said he tried to help the newspaper find his replacement, but was unsuccessful.
'I didn't want The Post to have a gap in fact-checking coverage during this fraught period in U.S. history. But we couldn't work out an agreement,' Kessler said.
I interpret that this way: Kessler wanted the buyout because he knew he would be fired in August if he didn't take it, but "offered" to keep doing left-wing "fact" checks until they found a replacement for him.
And management told him "No thanks, we're good, clear out your desk."
'In 2018, when the Fact Checker team was compiling a database of more than 30,000 Trump claims, I told the New York Times that "I have the best job in journalism."
Of course! You're a bitter left-wing propagandist who was paid to type up bitter left-wing propaganda talking points from the DNC.
'I still believe that, and I'm sorry to leave without a replacement lined up. But it's the right time for me. I hope The Post finds someone to carry on this important project.'
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'When I started in 2011, there were only a handful of fact-checking organizations around the world, and I have been thrilled to watch the movement expand across the globe. So many of these brave and diligent fact checkers have become good friends,' Kessler said.
Yeah I'll bet. I would bet that, besides being "friends," you're all open political allies, all are in the same slack channels coordinating the same talking points.