So, the plot thickens at The Washington Post, as billionaire Jeff Bezos has apparently decided to “Murdoch-ize” one of the two most important newspapers in the Western World. Lengthy analyses by Post writers in that paper, such as the one headlined, “Future Post Editor Tied to Self-Described ‘Thief,’” focus on allegations of ethical violations by key players Bezos is bringing on board to run his paper, but not nearly enough, if anything, about the proverbial “Murdoch in the room.”

The sad news is that The Post may be on the verge of undergoing a transformation from a newspaper to a propaganda weapon akin to Fox News wielded by the forces behind the Trump presidency. As such, it will be going the route of its neighbor to the north, The Baltimore Sun, which has come under the ownership of the lamentable rightwing Sinclair group which acquired it from the Alden Global Capital hedge fund people this January.

In the case of The Post, the latest shake-up of its editorial offices saw the announcement of the impending arrival of Robert Winnett, set to become editor later this year, brought on by now CEO William Lewis, who had been “a top executive in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire,” according to The Post story, and with that the abrupt departure of now-former editor Sally Buzbee. The Post story and its authors who are listed as Isaac Stanley-Becker, Sarah Ellison, Greg Miller and Aaron C. Davis deviates sharply from a proper focus on the Murdoch angle to touch on allegations of devious means to get information, through phone taps and other means, that caused scandals and confessions of “using deception and illegal means to obtain confidential information for Murdoch’s Sunday Times of London. It focuses on Lewis’ and Winnett’s role in that.

But those scandals of over a decade past are of any relevance only to the extent they underscore the unscrupulous nature of the entire Murdoch media empire that includes Fox News. It involves the wholesale not reporting of facts, but twisting of facts to fit a rightwing narrative that has become the signature of Fox News. It is appalling to us that the Murdoch angle in this takeover of The Post’s newsroom has not caused a huge uproar, except that downright fatigue has set in across so much of our political landscape, a fatigue that is a dangerous element in determining how this November’s U.S. presidential election might turn out.

Assailants against democracy are closing in on all sides. Biden is being hounded daily for his age and his son. Trump is once again getting deferential treatment by the major media. The word on the street is that his victory in November is all but a foregone conclusion, and everyone is lining up to kiss his ring or less desirable extensions of his bodily anatomy.

Only a massive mobilization of popular resistance can stop this now and honest newspapers are vital in this regard.