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February 05, 2026
Among the 300 staff dismissed at Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post is Michael Andor Brodeur, its classical critic for the past six years.
Brodeur never made the impact of his predecessors Anne Midgette and Tim Page, but perhaps he was not allowed to by an editorial team that was fighting other battles.
His dismissal leaves the Post without vital on-the-spot coverage of the crisis at the National Symphony Orchestra as the Trump Kennedy Center prepares to close this summer.
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Michael who?
Not one person cares what “educated” critic thinks about a performance. Thank you, Donald Trump, for exposing fake and pretentious elites trying to explain to us common folks high art – critics are no longer wanted, needed, or will ever be of any use, just like liberal social commentators. Good riddance. MAGA!
Your poor parents. And to think what high hopes they had for you when you were born. It all seems so tragic now.
Stop calling the Kennedy Center the Trump Kennedy Center. His illegally putting his name on it doesn’t make it so.
This is a sad loss for the music community in Washington; he was really even-handed (much better than Midgette’s ceaseless sneering), and paid friendly attention to local ensembles rather than focusing energy out of town.
This is sad, but unsurprising. Jeff Bezos is destroying a once proud newspaper, perhaps deliberately.
It’s sad, and does indeed leave the Kennedy Center story, which is a major Metro issue, uncovered by an expert. But in light of the firing of all foreign correspondent, I’m afraid it takes a back seat.
Do you really care about fair coverage? If you did you would call a friend and have them report on what is actually having.
“the crisis at the National Symphony Orchestra.” Oh, the pearl clutching. LOL
This critic made zero impact. He knew not a thing about classical music and his writing was fully unmemorable. Nobody paid him an ounce of attention.
“Learn to code”
-Joe Biden
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