Joyce Murdoch

Senior partner, Price-Murdoch Enterprises;Ex-WashPost ed;Nat'l Jour'l ME;SouthChinaMorningPost ed, Harvard instructor; Knight fellow;”CourtingJustice”co-author

[Joyce Murdoch @joycemurdoch]

@AlyssaRosenberg @AJI_Fellowships Congrats!

[Janet Mills @JanetMillsforME]

Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

[Joyce Murdoch @joycemurdoch]

@malonebarry Tax them out of existence!

[Joyce Murdoch @joycemurdoch]

@SenWhitehouse The cruelty, the destruction are the point—how better for Bezos to once again court Trump?

[Joyce Murdoch @joycemurdoch]

As with many things designed to curry favor with Trump, the brutality is the point.
I hope that a few of the good journalists kicked to the curb yesterday eventually get the pleasure of writing Jeff Bezos’ obituary and telling the world exactly how he should be remembered.

[Joyce Murdoch @joycemurdoch]

Cruelly wiping out the Sports Department and the Photo Department days before the Super Bowl and the Olympics certainly is not a bid for profitability.

[Joyce Murdoch @joycemurdoch]

I think the assault on The Washington Post is intentionally brutal and designed to elicit such loud howls of pain and protest that Trump will be sure to notice and approve.

[Joyce Murdoch @joycemurdoch]

One of the things my 10 years at The Washington Post taught me was to be extremely careful about my word choices.
“Rape” is not a word I would ever throw around lightly. But I think it’s the word that best describes what’s happening to the Post.

[Joyce Murdoch @joycemurdoch]

@svdate Maybe the point isn’t even to destroy the Post. Maybe the point is to make a big show—big enough that Trump can’t help but notice—of raping the Post and, thus, getting Trump to keep smiling at other Bezo adventures.

[Eugene Scott @Eugene_Scott]

Sometimes I wonder what the Washington Post would be like had McKenzie Scott won it in her divorce

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Hey Brendan "we can do this the easy way or the hard way" Carr: Last year in National Rifle Association v. Vullo, the Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed this fundamental principle of our constitutional republic: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors." This doesn't just constrain Democrats. It applies to all officeholders, including you. You took an oath to the Constitution not to Donald Trump.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?

Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?

That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?

That men don’t belong in women’s sport?

That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?

That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?

That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?

That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?

That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?

That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?

That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?

That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?

That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?

That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?

Let me have your thoughts.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.”

It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.

[Jonathan Capehart @CapehartJ]

Goodbye, Washington Post https://t.co/Bf5743bzx5

[Joyce Murdoch @joycemurdoch]

@statsforgender I really wish you would give citations for your stats. Otherwise I won’t feel comfortable mentioning them.

[Joyce Murdoch @joycemurdoch]

I think Andrew Sullivan nails it.
https://t.co/XO7W8TPVRg

[Joyce Murdoch @joycemurdoch]

@ANNELAMOTT Pernille. (Danish. On Netflix)

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Allowing Netanyahu to drag us into another endless war in the Middle East would be a catastrophic error by President Trump and Republicans in Congress.

Every lawmaker needs to ring the alarm against U.S. military action in Iran. Only Congress has the authority to declare war.

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

A judge granted Harvard’s request for a temporary restraining order hours after the University requested to block the Trump administration’s proclamation banning students on Harvard-sponsored visas from entering the U.S.

Crimson News Staff reports.

https://t.co/NlKrBX9Lfc