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Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, the proprietor of the Washington Post, mentioned the newspaper’s resolution to cease endorsing presidential candidates addresses a “credibility hole” afflicting the media trade.
“Most folks imagine the media is biased,” Bezos mentioned in an essay printed on the Post’s web site. “Anyone who doesn’t see that is paying scant consideration to actuality.”
Bezos additionally mentioned the Post’s motion was unrelated to former President Donald Trump’s assembly with executives from Blue Origin, one other of his companies, on the day of the announcement.
“I sighed once I came upon, as a result of I knew it will present ammunition to those that wish to body this as something aside from a principled resolution,” Bezos wrote.
The Post’s writer, William Lewis, introduced on Oct. 25 that the newspaper would not select sides in presidential races, one thing it has accomplished often since 1978. Editorial workers had been ready to endorse Trump’s Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
The resolution set off a firestorm of criticism, each inside and out of doors of the newspaper. Multiple editors and writers resigned. As many as 200,000 subscribers, or 8% of the overall, canceled, National Public Radio reported. A spokesperson for the Post declined to remark.
Among these criticizing the choice have been former Post govt editor Marty Baron, in addition to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Post reporters whose reporting on the Watergate scandal led President Richard Nixon to resign.
In his essay, Bezos mentioned presidential endorsements do “nothing to tip the scales of an election.” Instead they “create a notion of bias.”
That has allowed the house to be crammed by social media posts and different unverified information sources. He urged readers to appreciate that adjustments just like the endorsement resolution are mandatory.
“I will even not enable this paper to remain on autopilot and fade into irrelevance—overtaken by unresearched podcasts and social media barbs—not and not using a struggle,” Bezos wrote.
