The Washington Post Building at One Franklin Square Building on June 5, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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The Washington Post stated Friday that it will certainly not support a prospect in the governmental political election this year, damaging years of practice, and triggering prompt objection of the choice.
The paper additionally Friday released a post by 2 personnel press reporters stating that content web page staffers had actually composed a recommendation of Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in the political election.
“The choice not to release was made by The Post’s proprietor– Amazon creator Jeff Bezos,” The Post reported, mentioning 2 resources oriented on the occasions.
Amazon creator Jeff Bezos shows up for his conference with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the UK polite home on September 20, 2021 in New York City.
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Post president Will Lewis, in an on the internet description of the choice, created, “The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election.”
“We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” Lewis created.
“We recognize that this will be read in a range of ways, including as a
tacit endorsement of one candidate, or as a condemnation of another, or as an abdication of responsibility,” he created. “That is inevitable. We don’t see it that way. We see it as consistent with the values The Post has always stood for and what we hope for in a leader: character and courage in service to the American ethic, veneration for the rule of law, and respect for human freedom in all its aspects.”
The statement came days after the head of The Los Angeles Times‘s content board surrendered in objection afterwards paper’s proprietor Patrick Soon-Shiong made a decision versus running a governmental recommendation.
Soon-Shiong, like Bezos, is a billionaire.
“@realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others),” Baron created. “Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.”
The Washington Post Guild, the union that stands for the paper’s personnel, in a declaration published on the social networks website X stated it was “deeply concerned that The Washington Post — an American news institution in the nation’s capital — would make a decision to no longer endorse presidential candidates, especially a mere 11 days ahead of an immensely consequential election.”
“The message from our chief executive, Will Lewis — not from the Editorial Board itself — makes us concerned that management interfered with the work of our members in Editorial,” the Guild stated in the declaration, which kept in mind the paper’s reporting around Bezos’s function in the choice.
“We are already seeing cancellations from once loyal readers,” the Guild stated. “This decision undercuts the work of our members at a time when we should be building our readers’ trust, not losing it.”
Marty Baron, the previous editor of The Washington Post, called the paper’s choice “cowardice, with democracy at its casualty.”
″ @realdonaldtrump will certainly see this as an invite to additional frighten proprietor @jeffbezos (and others),” Baron wrote. “Disturbing spinelessness at an organization famous for nerve.”
Rep. Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California, in his own tweet on the news wrote, “The primary step in the direction of fascism is when the cost-free press cowers in concern.”
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