Employees outraged at ‘chicken-shit’ move that breaks 30-year precedent, alleging Jeff Bezos quashed Harris support

There was uproar and outrage among the Washington Post’s current and former staffers and other notable figures in the world of American media after the newspaper’s leaders on Friday chose to not endorse any candidate in the US presidential election.

The newspaper’s publisher, Will Lewis, announced on Friday that for the first time in over 30 years, the paper’s editorial board would not be endorsing a candidate in this year’s presidential election, nor in future presidential elections.

After the news broke, reactions came flooding in, with people criticizing the decision, which, according to some staffers and reporters, was allegedly made by the Post’s owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos.

Karen Attiah, a columnist for the Washington Post who writes a weekly newsletter, called the decision an “absolute stab in the back”.

  • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldM
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    6 days ago

    The goal of journalism isn’t neutrality, it’s truth. If that commitment leads to the endorsement of one candidate over another, then that speaks to the weakness of the spurned candidate, not the journalist.

    You’ll note the word “neutral” doesnt actually show up in their code of ethics. Rupert Murdoch and Fox News are the reason we’re wedded to the notion that journalists must remain neutral, and it’s high time for that notion to be relegated to the trash bin of history as another facially stupid concept.