Washington Post says it will stop endorsing presidential candidates
Will Lewis, the company’s chief executive, said the paper was “returning to our roots” of not making endorsements for the office.
The Washington Post's chief executive told the newsroom on Friday that it would no longer endorse presidential candidates, breaking with decades of precedent at the newspaper.
"The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election," wrote Will Lewis, The Post's chief executive. "Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates."
The Post has endorsed presidential candidates since 1976, Mr. Lewis wrote, when it gave its stamp of approval to Jimmy Carter, who went on to win the election. Before that, it generally did not make presidential endorsements, though it made an exception in 1952 to back Dwight Eisenhower.
Questions about whether The Post would endorse a candidate this year had spread for days. Some people speculated, without any proof, that the paper's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, was being cowed by a prospective Trump administration because his other businesses have many federal government contracts.
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Are you telling me Jeff Bezos the billionaire didn't buy print media to make money?!
I hope the editorial staff takes a literal collective shit on his desk before walking out
The humor columnist already went rogue and endorsed Harris
The editorial cartoonist also made a rather pointed piece about it
Edit: screencap because lazy
Not paying to view someone want to share. Not giving them a single dime.
WaPo wapo wapo. You helped trump in 2016. You did next to nothing in 2020, and here we are again.
It’s almost like you suck. Except that you do. Suck.
Let's not forget they demanded Biden step down.
Also that.
I canceled my subscription. The billionaires have openly declared for fascism. Fuck em all and may God help us.
Lots of people canceling their subscriptions as well.
"Until it's someone Jeff wants, then we will definitely do it again."
This is why Politico and ProPublica are better than The Washington Post
Politico is just fascist propaganda since it was bought by Axel Springer.
Funnily enough, WaPo did a profile of the CEO of Axel Springer.
https://archive.ph/2OtO8
Oh these fucks are the reason bypass paywall clean needed to mirror to GitFlic. Fuck them hard
Chicken shit billionaires
I forgot their toady-in-chief was from the Murdoch slime factories.
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