Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports

The Washington Post said Friday that it volition not endorse a campaigner successful the statesmanlike predetermination for the archetypal clip since 1976.

The paper besides connected Friday ran an nonfiction by 2 unit reporters saying that editorial leafage staffers had drafted an endorsement of Kamala Harris implicit Donald Trump successful the election.

"The determination not to people was made by The Post's proprietor — Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos," The Post reported, citing 2 sources briefed connected the events.

Post main enforcement Will Lewis, successful an online mentation of the decision, wrote, "The Washington Post volition not beryllium making an endorsement of a statesmanlike campaigner successful this election. Nor successful immoderate aboriginal statesmanlike election."

"We are returning to our roots of not endorsing statesmanlike candidates," Lewis wrote.

The announcement came days aft the caput of The Los Angeles Times's editorial committee resigned successful protestation aft that paper's proprietor Patrick Soon-Shiong decided against moving a statesmanlike endorsement.

Soon-Shiong, similar Bezos, is simply a billionaire.

The Washington Post Guild, the national that represents the newspaper's staff, successful a connection posted connected the societal media tract X said it was "deeply acrophobic that The Washington Post — an American quality instauration successful the nation's superior — would marque a determination to nary longer endorse statesmanlike candidates, particularly a specified 11 days up of an immensely consequential election."

"The connection from our main executive, Will Lewis — not from the Editorial Board itself — makes america acrophobic that absorption interfered with the enactment of our members successful Editorial," the Guild said successful the statement, which noted the paper's reporting astir Bezos's relation successful the decision.

"We are already seeing cancellations from erstwhile loyal readers," the Guild said. "This determination undercuts the enactment of our members astatine a clip erstwhile we should beryllium gathering our readers' trust, not losing it."

Marty Baron, the erstwhile exertion of The Washington Post, called the paper's determination "cowardice, with ideology astatine its casualty."

"@realdonaldtrump volition spot this arsenic an invitation to further intimidate proprietor @jeffbezos (and others)," Bezos wrote. "Disturbing spinelessness astatine an instauration famed for courage."

Rep. Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California, successful his ain tweet connected the quality wrote, "The archetypal measurement towards fascism is erstwhile the escaped property cowers successful fear."

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