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Jeff Bezos describing journalism as “our profession” in an op-ed defending his decision to kill the Washington Post’s Harris endorsement

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Opinion The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media A note from our owner. 5 min 15478 By Jeff Bezos October 28, 2024 at 7:26 p.m. EDT Jeff Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post. 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.
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in reply to Molly White

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but is he talking about journalism? Salespeople, advertising and company executives are all less trusted than journalists, and Bezos went real hard on all three newsweek.com/americas-15-most-…

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