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Washington Post not endorsing presidential candidate for first time in decades
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2024-10-28 at 8:36 PM UTCJeff Bezos is a spineless coward.
Needs to be LOCKED UP with the dictator.
LOCK HIM UP!
GO KAMALA!The Washington Post will not be endorsing any candidate for president this year, the newspaper’s publisher announced Friday.
In a note to readers, Post publisher William Lewis said the outlet would not back a candidate for president in 2024 or “in any future presidential election.”
It is the first time the Post will not be making an endorsement in a presidential race in 36 years.
“We 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,” Lewis wrote. “That is inevitable. We don’t see it that way. We see it as consistent with the values The Post has always stood for.”
He added that the Post’s job “is to provide through the newsroom nonpartisan news for all Americans, and thought-provoking, reported views from our opinion team to help our readers make up their own minds.”
“Most of all, our job as the newspaper of the capital city of the most important country in the world is to be independent,” Lewis concluded. “And that is what we are and will be.”
The Post’s decision not to endorse either Vice President Harris or former President Trump comes after a similar move at the Los Angeles Times, where owner Patrick Soon-Shiong opted not to endorse either candidate. That decision has led to a number of top editors at the LA Times resigning from the paper in protest.
The Post has endorsed other candidates this cycle, including Democrat Angela Alsobrooks in her Maryland Senate race against former Gov. Larry Hogan (R). In 2020, it backed now-President Biden over Trump, and in 2016, it endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
The Post’s decision was immediately criticized by famed former top Post editor Marty Baron, who called it “disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage” in a post on the social platform X.
“This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty,” Baron wrote.
The paper is owned by Jeff Bezos, one of the richest people in the world, who hired Lewis this year to replace longtime publisher Fred Ryan.
Lewis’s hiring has sparked internal backlash at the Post in connection with an alleged hacking scandal during his time working for conservative tabloids in Great Britain.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4953491-washington-post-presidential-candidate-endorsement-william-lews-jeff-bezos-trump-harris/ -
2024-10-28 at 8:37 PM UTCHello Paul.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-28 at 8:53 PM UTCWelcome back!
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2024-10-28 at 10:50 PM UTCvery neutral of them
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2024-10-28 at 10:53 PM UTCWozny
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2024-10-29 at 12:05 AM UTCThe lamestream media news is stepping aside and allowing the layman to have his voice heard instead of having a hand rubbing kike and a putler decide the election like the past two hacked elections this time it will be fair
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2024-10-29 at 12:59 AM UTCThey've already made their endorsement, with all the Trump Derangement Syndrome garbage they've been constantly spewing. No official statement on the subject is required.
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2024-10-29 at 1:22 AM UTCI can't wait to go to bed
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2024-10-29 at 2:09 AM UTCBezos hasn't been in the private market for years lol OP must be braindead
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2024-10-29 at 2:19 AM UTCApparently doing this cost them nearly 10% of their subscribers overnight. Trump is going to lose so bad. 😏
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2024-10-29 at 3:10 AM UTC
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2024-10-29 at 4:16 AM UTC
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2024-10-29 at 7:17 AM UTCi cant wait for night of the long folding knivesThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-29 at 7:25 AM UTC
Originally posted by Fax 📠 Hello Paul.
pretty sure that's the Cum Lickin' Faggot
Originally posted by Elbow Apparently doing this cost them nearly 10% of their subscribers overnight. Trump is going to lose so bad. 😏
isn't their primary market centre-leftists? 10% loss out of those people doesn't seem like much -
2024-10-29 at 7:27 AM UTC
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2024-10-29 at 7:28 AM UTCand to be honest, Bezos' statement on the matter is very reasonable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s 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.
Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.
Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
basically trust in 'mainstream' media is low enough as it is without it appearing as a mouthpiece for either candidate, so it's more important for them to work towards a ratio of more reporting and less editorialising. -
2024-10-29 at 7:36 AM UTC
Originally posted by ner vegas and to be honest, Bezos' statement on the matter is very reasonable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/
basically trust in 'mainstream' media is low enough as it is without it appearing as a mouthpiece for either candidate, so it's more important for them to work towards a ratio of more reporting and less editorialising.
read between the lines.
its what he wants the Press to be thats scarry,
HE WANTS TO REGAIN PEOPLES TRUST IN THE MASS MEDIA IN ORDER TO GAIN THE MONOPOLY OF TRUTH, BY PRESENTING PEOPLE WITH PERCEPTION OF BEING FAIR AND UNBIASED.
in short, its the PERCEPTION that hes trying to change.
the devil is in the asterisks. -
2024-10-29 at 7:38 AM UTC
Originally posted by Charles Ex Machina read between the lines.
its what he wants the Press to be thats scarry,
HE WANTS TO REGAIN PEOPLES TRUST IN THE MASS MEDIA IN ORDER TO GAIN THE MONOPOLY OF TRUTH, BY PRESENTING PEOPLE WITH PERCEPTION OF BEING FAIR AND UNBIASED.
in short, its the PERCEPTION that hes trying to change.
the devil is in the asterisks.
probably, perception drives real change though.
it doesn't really matter, maybe if they started doing it 10-20 years ago but it's too late now -
2024-10-29 at 7:41 AM UTC
Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone w
as far as i can tell wapo fails on both count and its neither accurate or unbiased, but note that jeus bezo only acknoledge failing the 2nd requirement,
the jeus scream deceit while deceiving the shit out of you -
2024-10-29 at 7:42 AM UTC
