{"id":118579,"date":"2024-10-26T12:45:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T05:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118579"},"modified":"2024-10-26T12:45:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T05:45:16","slug":"jeff-bezos-blocked-washington-post-editorial-endorsing-kamala-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118579","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos blocked Washington Post editorial endorsing Kamala Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Less than two weeks before Election Day, The Washington Post said Friday it would not endorse a candidate for president in this year\u2019s tightly contested race and would avoid doing so in the future \u2014 a decision immediately condemned by a former executive editor and one that the current publisher insisted was \u201cconsistent with the values the Post has always stood for.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/media\/2024\/10\/25\/washington-post-endorsement-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/media\/2024\/10\/25\/washington-post-endorsement-president\/\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>\u00a0posted on the front of its website, the Post \u2014 reporting on its own inner workings \u2014 also quoted anonymous sources within the publication as saying that an endorsement of Kamala Harris over Donald Trump had been written but not published. Those sources told the Post reporters that the company\u2019s owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos, made the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The publisher of the Post,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/post-publisher-phone-hacking-9fc4c12509ef8e567fe94f679506de97\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/post-publisher-phone-hacking-9fc4c12509ef8e567fe94f679506de97\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Lewis,<\/a>\u00a0wrote\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2024\/10\/25\/washington-post-endorsement\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2024\/10\/25\/washington-post-endorsement\/\" rel=\"noopener\">in a column<\/a>\u00a0that the decision was actually a return to a tradition the paper had years ago of not endorsing candidates. He said it reflected the paper\u2019s faith in \u201cour readers\u2019 ability to make up their own minds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognize that this will be read in a range of ways, including as a tacit endorsement of one candidate, or as a condemnation of another, or as an abdication of responsibility. That is inevitable,\u201d Lewis wrote. \u201cWe don\u2019t see it that way. We see it as consistent with the values The Post has always stood for and what we hope for in a leader: character and courage in service to the American ethic, veneration for the rule of law, and respect for human freedom in all its aspects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate reaction from either campaign.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Post isn\u2019t the only one going this route<\/h4>\n<p>Lewis cited the Post\u2019s history in writing about the decision. According to him, the Post only started regularly endorsing candidates for president when it backed Jimmy Carter in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The Post said the decision had \u201croiled\u201d many on the opinion staff, which operates independently from the Post\u2019s newsroom staff \u2014 what is known commonly in the industry as a \u201cchurch-state separation\u201d between those who report the news and those who write opinion.<\/p>\n<p>The Post\u2019s move comes the same week that the Los Angeles Times announced a similar decision, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/los-angeles-times-editors-resign-af6c077d502c9d4878bee01fa6575450\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/los-angeles-times-editors-resign-af6c077d502c9d4878bee01fa6575450\" rel=\"noopener\">triggered the resignations<\/a>\u00a0of its editorial page editor and two other members of the editorial board. In that instance, the Times\u2019 owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, insisted he had not censored the editorial board, which had planned to endorse Harris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an owner, I\u2019m on the editorial board and I shared with our editors that maybe this year we have a column, a page, two pages, if we want, of all the pros and all the cons and let the readers decide,\u201d Soon-Shiong said in an interview Thursday with Spectrum News. He said he feared endorsing a candidate would add to the country\u2019s division.<\/p>\n<p>Many American newspapers have been dropping editorial endorsements in recent years. That is in large part because at a time readership has been dwindling, they don\u2019t want to give remaining subscribers and news consumers a reason to get mad and cancel their subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Baron, the Post\u2019s executive editor for 2012 to 2021, immediately condemned the decision on <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/twitter\/\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a>, saying it empowers Trump to further intimidate Bezos and others. \u201cThis is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty,\u201d he wrote. \u201cDisturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It comes at a time when newspapers are struggling<\/h4>\n<p>The decisions come at a fraught time for American media, newspapers in particular. Local news is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/newspapers-closing-jobs-lost-digital-fa82ebfdefdde058a1cbfaea1a59fb69\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/newspapers-closing-jobs-lost-digital-fa82ebfdefdde058a1cbfaea1a59fb69\" rel=\"noopener\">drying up<\/a>\u00a0in many places. And after being upended by the economics of the internet and drastically evolving reader habits, the top \u201clegacy media\u201d \u2014 including the Post, The New York Times and others \u2014 have been struggling to keep up with a changing landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere is this more true, perhaps, than in the political arena. The candidates this year have been rejecting some mainstream interviews\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-harris-media-podcasts-a5a0870943177ea9320389748fe2fa5c\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-harris-media-podcasts-a5a0870943177ea9320389748fe2fa5c\" rel=\"noopener\">in favor of podcasts<\/a>\u00a0and other niche programming, and many news organizations are vigorously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/misinformation-trump-harris-election-night-65c7dd8f9d7eb2e6e5c47afd837da2e1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/misinformation-trump-harris-election-night-65c7dd8f9d7eb2e6e5c47afd837da2e1\" rel=\"noopener\">ramping up to combat misinformation<\/a>\u00a0in near-real time on Election Day, Nov. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who for years called the media covering him\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bc8b3670f9284186ac9a2699566b9baf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ  \" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bc8b3670f9284186ac9a2699566b9baf\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cthe enemy of the people,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0has returned to such rhetoric in recent days. His vitriol in particular is aimed at CBS, whose broadcast license he has threatened to revoke.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, at a rally in Arizona, he returned to the language explicitly once more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re the enemy of the people. They are,\u201d Trump said to a jeering crowd. \u201cI\u2019ve been asked not to say that. I don\u2019t want to say it. And some day they\u2019re not going to be the enemy of the people, I hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the Post, the decision is certain to generate debate beyond the news cycle. It seemed to acknowledge this with a note from the paper\u2019s letters and community editor at the top of the comments section on the publisher\u2019s column: \u201cI know many of you will have strong feelings about this note from Mr. Lewis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, by midafternoon, the column had elicited more than 7,000 comments, many critical. Said one, riffing off the Post\u2019s slogan, \u201cDemocracy Dies in Darkness\u201d: \u201cTime to change your slogan to `Democracy dies in broad daylight.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/10\/25\/jeff-bezos-washington-post-editorial-endorsement-kamala-harris-donald-trump-election\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than two weeks before Election Day, The Washington Post said Friday it would not endorse a candidate for president in this year\u2019s tightly contested race and would avoid doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118579\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}