WaPo Owner Blasted Over 2024 Non-Endorsement

[Webster]

 

[DrLeftover]

It is no secret that the Post's editorial staff and byline getting reporters may as well be Harris's campaign staff.

The official position of the paper makes no difference at all to their coverage of the election.

 

[Webster]

It is no secret that the Post's editorial staff and byline getting reporters may as well be Harris's campaign staff.

Same could be said for Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, etc, w/regards to the GOP, Doc....

The official position of the paper makes no difference at all to their coverage of the election.

The problem is the timing here; if Bezos makes this decision six months or a year/two years ago, we're not having this conversation. Given the stakes in this election, his decision reeks of "anticipatory obedience" towards Trump and it royally stinks. He effectively threw the editorial staff under the bus for no other reason than Bezos wants to keep his govt. contracts flowing to Amazon/Blue Origin and he's worried if he endorses Harris and Trump wins, the gravytrain will stop.

 

[Webster]

Whatever Bezos said, @DrLeftover, it ain't working.... *points below*

(The Guardian) Deterioration of the Washington Post’s subscriber base continued on Tuesday, hours after its proprietor, Jeff Bezos, defended the decision to forgo formally endorsing a presidential candidate as part of an effort to restore trust in the media.

The publication has now shed 250,000 subscribers, or 10% of the 2.5 million customers it had before the decision was made public on Friday, according to the NPR reporter David Folkenflik. A day earlier, 200,000 had left according to the same outlet.

The numbers are based on the number of cancellation emails that have been sent out, according to a source at the paper, though the subscriber dashboard is no longer viewable to employees. The Washington Post has not commented on the reported numbers.

The famed Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said on Tuesday he disagreed with the paper’s decision, adding that the outlet was “an institution reporting about Donald Trump and what he’s done and supported by the editorial page”.

Bezos framed the decision as an effort to support journalists and journalism, noting that in “surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress”.

But in this election year, he noted, the press had fallen below Congress, according to a Gallup poll. “We have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working,” he wrote.