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#Bezos is wrong to think that this will protect him from #Trump's retribution. WashPo's reporting on Trump (like all accurate reporting on Trump) has consistently put him in a bad light and made Trump want to settle the score.
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Jeff Bezos reportedly killed the Washington Post’s Kamala Harris endorsement
WaPo reports that its billionaire owner intervened to cancel an editorial board endorsement that had already been written.Elizabeth Lopatto (The Verge)
Good response to #Bezos from @mmasnick:
techdirt.com/2024/10/29/dear-j…
"This isn’t…about the decision not to publish an endorsement. The real issue is you stepping in as owner to block the endorsement at the perfect time to show that you capitulated in advance to an authoritarian bully who has attacked your business interests in the past & has indicated he has a plan to exact revenge on all who wronged him. The principled response to such threats is to continue doing good journalism & not back down."
Dear Jeff Bezos: The ‘Hard Truth’ Is That Cowardice Like Yours Is Why People Don’t Trust The Media
Hey Jeff, Since I know you’ll never actually read this, I figured the best way to set this up as an open letter. One that you should read, but never will. It appears that your stupendously cowardly…Techdirt
"How is it possible that an indicted insurrectionist, adjudicated sex offender, and convicted felon could very possibly be elected president for the second time?
The news of this past week gives us a clue. Billionaire newspaper owners Jeff Bezos (Washington Post) and Patrick Soon-Shiong (LA Times) each killed an already-approved editorial board endorsement of Kamala Harris."
~ Michael Podhorzer
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #Bezos #LosAngelesTimes #SoonShiong
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The John Roberts Election
Politicians in Robes Part II: How the billionaires captured the Court to remake American “democracy” in their own imageMichael Podhorzer (Weekend Reading)
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What makes Bezos’s op-ed so insulting is that if he’d made some kind of principled decision to not endorse in the name of “independence” that would not have happened after the endorsement had been drafted and readied for publication.
He obviously thinks WaPo’s readers are idiots.
#media #Election2024 #bezos
From: @NBCNewYork
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Jeff Bezos defends Washington Post non-endorsement, says Americans ‘don't trust' media
Washington Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reacted to criticism over a decision not to endorse Kamala Harris or Donald Trump in the election.nbcnewyork.com - Dan Mangan,CNBC
Shipley held a contentious meeting on Monday with scores of #opinion section staffers, who posed tough questions to the #editorial page chief, including appeals for #Bezos to address them.
As recently as last week, according to a person present, Shipley said he sought to talk Bezos out of his decision. Shipley added, “I failed.”
“I believe we face a very real threat of #autocracy in the candidacy of Donald #Trump,” Hoffman added in his letter to #Editorial Page Editor #DavidShipley, which was obtained by NPR. “I find it untenable & unconscionable that we have lost our voice."
Hoffman says he intends to remain at the paper, saying he "refuses to give up on The Post, where I have spent 42 years.
“For decades, the #WashingtonPost's editorials have been a beacon of light, signaling hope to dissidents, political prisoners & the voiceless,” Hoffman wrote in a letter Monday explaining his decision to leave the editorial board. “When victims of repression were harassed, exiled, imprisoned & murdered, we made sure the whole world knew the truth.
The other writer is David Hoffman, who accepted a #PulitzerPrize for #editorial writing on Thurs, the day before #Bezos’ decision…. Pulitzer judges recognized him “for a compelling & well-researched series on new #technologies & the tactics #authoritarian regimes use to repress #dissent in the digital age, & how they can be fought.”
The decision by #Bezos, the #billionaire founder of #Amazon, was first reported by NPR on Friday. In the days since, 2 columnists have resigned from the paper & 2 writers have stepped down from the #editorial board.
One of those #writers, Molly Roberts, warned of the possible consequences of the 11th-hour decision to stay quiet rather than publish the editorial endorsing #Harris. "#Trump is not yet a #dictator," she wrote in a stmnt. "But the quieter we are, the closer he comes."
The #WashingtonPost has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations of digital #subscriptions & a series of #resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples w/the fallout of owner #Bezos’s decision to block an #endorsement of #KamalaHarris.
>200k people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday…. The figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5M subscribers, which includes print as well.
#FourthEstate #democracy #journalism
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The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.
A corporate spokesperson declined to comment, citing The #WashingtonPost Co.'s status as a privately held company.
“It’s a colossal number,” former Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli told NPR. “The problem is, people don’t know why the decision was made. We basically know the decision was made but we don’t know what led to it.”
Over 200,000 subscribers reportedly flee The Washington Post after owner Jeff Bezos blocked an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
@npr reports "the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well." Several columnists have also resigned from the paper over the decision.
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #USPolitics #JeffBezos #Media #Politics #Trump #News #Journalism
Voting with your wallet is one of the few tools we have left.
Grow a spine Bezos. "Democracy Dies in Darkness" is the slogan of the paper you bought. Now you've killed it.
(I wonder how many people cancelled today? Judging by my feed, it's not a small number.)
Jeff #Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports
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Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports
The Washington Post planned to endorse Kamala Harris over Donald Trump before owner Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, decided again it, the newspaper reported.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
