There’s chaos at The Washington Publish after its proprietor Jeff Bezos vetoed an endorsement of Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.
As reported by NPR on Friday, the paper won’t be endorsing a candidate for the primary time since 1980 after Bezos determined the corporate ought to stay impartial.
“The choice was revealed in a tense assembly with folks on the editorial workers,” NPR reported.
“And it arrives at a time of heightened concern over whether or not information shops are pulling their punches so as to appease Trump in remaining days of a neck and neck presidential race [against] VP Harris MORE.”
Now, staffers on the firm are reportedly threatening to denounce the corporate and even stroll out in protest.
In line with Semafor’s media editor Max Tani, the paper’s opinion workers are “livid” concerning the choice and are “considering what motion to take, starting from resigning, quitting the board, or a press release.”
Opinion workers at WaPo are livid concerning the paper’s endorsement choice. A number of are considering what motion to take, starting from resigning, quitting the board, or a press release. “If you do not have the balls to personal a newspaper, do not,” one Publish opinion worker tells me.
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 25, 2024
In the meantime, CNN’s Democratic Social gathering propagandist Brian Stelter, quoted one editor as saying that the choice represents “an outrageous abdication of accountability. Democracy does not die in darkness, it dies when folks anticipatorily consent to a fascist’s whims.
A member of the Wash Publish editorial division tells me: Bezos’s choice to not endorse is “an outrageous abdication of accountability. Democracy does not die in darkness, it dies when folks anticipatorily consent to a fascist’s whims.”
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 25, 2024
In the meantime, the Washington Publish Guild issued a press release denouncing the choice, arguing it “undercuts the work of our members at a time after we ought to be constructing our readers’ belief, not shedding it” and that readers are already cancelling their subscriptions in consequence.
An announcement from Publish Guild management on the Washington Publish’s choice to not endorse a presidential candidate pic.twitter.com/fYU7hkr79K
— Washington Publish Guild (@PostGuild) October 25, 2024
In the meantime, columnist Bob Kagan has already introduced his resignation from the corporate, reviews the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser.
Replace: I’m instructed that Kagan, the creator of the Publish’s prescient piece warning of Trump and ‘fascism’, has resigned within the wake of right this moment’s announcement that the Bezos-owned paper won’t be endorsing a candidate. https://t.co/UW5K387JaW
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) October 25, 2024
The Washington Publish will not be the one main paper to say no to endorse Kamala Harris.
Earlier this week, the far-left Los Angeles Instances additionally confirmed it will not be endorsing a candidate after its personal, Dr. Patrick Quickly-Shiong, blocked efforts to take action.
In a press release, the Instances merely stated that “the editorial board endorses selectively, selecting probably the most consequential races by which to make suggestions.”
