Jeff Bezos defends Washington Post’s decision to stop presidential endorsements days before election
Jeff Bezos defends Washington Post’s decision to stop presidential endorsements days before election
The newspaper's billionaire owner broke his silence Monday night, arguing that presidential endorsements create the "perception of bias" and don't "tip the scales" of an election.
presidential endorsements create the "perception of bias"
You know what else creates a perception of bias? Meeting with Trump right before withholding the Harris endorsement.
Also... bullshit... it's amazing how many people just get their marching instructions from their preferred newspaper. They don't even pay attention. They will literally tell canvassers that they will decide who they are voting for based on what the paper says.
They don’t even pay attention. They will literally tell canvassers that they will decide who they are voting for based on what the paper says.
I had a conversation with my dad recently about it. he's been a life long republican. In any case I had to remind him that I told him in 2016 that Trump was quoting hitler almost-verbatim. The only difference was that a) it was a more or less direct translation into english, and b) 'jews' were exchanged for 'muslims'.
he also kept demanding sources and I'm like 'the source is trump speaking. trump said that himself. this is a direct quote'. (for example the 'Dictator on day one' comment.) same goes for political violence. same goes for everything in the 2025;
like fucking hell, it's exhausting. I tossed in the source on Fox being a right-wing propaganda rag for good measure.
"if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"
-Rush
The Washington Post already carries a perception of bias for the Republican party, a Harris endorsement would have potentially balanced that somewhat.
This statement doesn't even stand up to the flimsiest scrutiny
So didn't the crucial reporting of Woodward and Bernstein exposing the Watergate scandal on the pages of the Washington Post show bias against Nixon, Jeff? Would you have stopped that reporting had you owned the paper in 1972?
Yes
Then wait until a non-election year to do it
Democracy dies in cowardice
WaPo endorsed other candidates for office in this very election cycle. "All of a sudden" when the editorial desk wants to endorse Harris, it's "OOOHHHHHHH NOOOOOOO WE HAVE TO BE INDEPENDENT!"
Fuck you, Jeff.
Bezos is a fascist
Fuck off Nazi, never another penny
"Democracy died in broad daylight"
If there are two parties, and one says it's raining, and the other says it isn't, it's not the news media's job to give an unbiased report on the debate, it's their job to look out the fucking window and say whether or not it's raining.
Tax your rich assholes America.
Been trying to I promise! Trouble is, the rich assholes took over the asylum
"Democracy dies with billionaires."
God he is such a fucking tool, and he doesn’t even realize it
I'm pretty sure he realizes it. What he doesn't want is for everyone else to realize it too.
Guy has totally bought his own press.. wait, what
Jokes aside-- Fuck Bezos. I hope him and Musk get their just desserts.
Huh. Weird. Bezos’s face is different from how it used to be. He’s definitely gotten gender affirming surgery (testosterone or some cheek squaring plastic surgery)
He's going full lex Luther
His wife already looks like a Barbie doll.
Smells like an anti-editorial absolutist. Wow so objective. Much truth.
Wtf is wrong with being biased against out and proud fascists.
It's not even bias... My hatred for fascists is well-founded, thank you very much
Lol. It wasn't the "Washington Post" who decided that. It was the owner.
"Dave Limp, the chief executive of one of my companies, Blue Origin, met with former president Donald Trump on the day of our announcement," Bezos wrote. "I sighed when I found out, because I knew it would provide ammunition to those who would like to frame this as anything other than a principled decision. But the fact is, I didn’t know about the meeting beforehand. Even Limp didn’t know about it in advance; the meeting was scheduled quickly that morning. There is no connection between it and our decision on presidential endorsements, and any suggestion otherwise is false."
"Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, 'I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.' None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one," Bezos wrote
Dear God, his transformation into Dr Evil is nearly complete!
"I'll give you an endorsement for Harris... For ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS!! Muahahaha!!!"
how exactly is it that any kind of endorsement creates a “perception of bias”? is he trying to argue that all opinions are biased? and if so, why doesn’t he say anything to support that claim?
Guys, relax, what I did was totally the right thing to do, The New York Times is about to post 5 articles about it.... or else.
- Papa Money
I would read what he wrote, but I already canceled my subscription. Alas.
The number of subscriptions has gone down by 10% already. That's what happens when billionaires interfere with media, apparently.
People should hit him where it hurts, Amazon.
If literally nobody gives a shit about the endorsement then blocking it is a pointless gesture and not going to increase credibility with anyone by his own admission, Is what I would say if it wasn't obviously another billionaire oligarch putting his finger on the scale of democracy then saying it isn't or it's justified.
Is this Streisand effect going on? By not endorsing they got more people engaged then if they had?
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