just devastating, the intensity of the hurt and the eloquence of the writers.
I read Milbank and for now am holding. agree that the paper will have to earn back trust from scratch, but spent most of my work life in publishing and can't in good conscience hasten further layoffs or worse.
been wondering if Bezos thought any of this through and didn't care, or if none of it matters because his fear of Trump canceling Bezos' government contracts or messing with Amazon and Blue Apron (joke) trumps all. wondering if Bezos understands that he has probably lost the goodwill of many millions (not so many now, but contempt for him will spread) to fear, that it is not reclaimable, and that without it, his companies have seen their best days and this will be his legacy, as a traitor who gave away the credibility and honor of a beloved, venerable news institution during a crisis that could end the republic.
Jeffy just created massive public support for trust-busting his Amazon monopoly. When Amazon is broken up into a dozen pieces, and future Dem administrations cancel his space contracts he'll rue this cowardly WaPo "business decision."
Wall Street Journal should be named Murdoch Journal.
They do not serve Las Angeles, Washington, or Wall Street. They Serve Patrick Soon-Shiong, Jeff Bezos, And Rupert Murdoch. They are not used as newspapers, They are public relation firms masquerading as newspapers.
To be clear: it’s not that Bezos is afraid for his personal freedom, much less his life. He’s just afraid he’ll be a little bit less multibillionaire-y under Trump than he is now. That’s certainly worth the Post’s integrity and reputation, not to mention all the journalists and other employees who will inevitably lose their jobs because this catastrophic decision has made the Post less solvent. We should all be proud that Bezos’ choice was for a good cause: to maybe (but almost certainly not) protect a little bit of his unfathomable fortune from Trump’s vengeance, safe in the knowledge that he’d have nothing to worry about from a Harris administration.
After many decades of subscribing I canceled the NYT last summer for unfair hounding of President Biden in their debate coverage while they gave Trump a pass. I switched to the Philadelphia Inquirer and am happy with their coverage and the weiting of Will Bunch.
The Washington Post is in no way obligated to endorse anyone for president. In fact, it’s the job of newspapers to bring facts to the public and that’s it, not to make decisions for voters. To endorse either of these two strong supporters of genocide (Harris or Trump) would be irresponsible and egregious on the part of anyone with a sense of right and wrong. It’s not the obligation of any news outlet to endorse candidates. If they want to do so, it should be made clear that it’s simply an opinion. To be a fair outlet that has decided to make political recommendations, it should offer different viewpoints for/from opposing candidates. To those readers of WaPo who’ve decided to drop their subscriptions because of this issue, I can say with confidence, there are much better reasons to drop this paper with its sycophant “journalists” reproducing the government narrative verbatim rather than doing the right thing, real journalism without fear of consequences. You know, like Greenwald, Chomsky, Finkelstein, Lawrence, Mate, Halper, Abunimah, Assange, Levy, Hedges, Johnstone, Klarenberg, Kennard, Ritter, et.al. You do know real journalists can’t print at WaPo, the NYT, and LAT, don’t you?
after I read your comment, I wanted to think on it for a bit. You were right newspapers shouldn’t endorse a candidate even though a lot of new sources like Fox Newsmax are endorsing them throughout through propaganda and lies.
Jeff Bezos should’ve stopped this practice immediately upon taking ownership but he didn’t.
A republic is at a crossing road like Germany was back when Hitler was rising to power. There’s almost a sense of duty to report everything and not sugarcoat anything. That hasn’t always happened.
This practice could be more objective is by picking a criteria point such as criminal acts, and count how many criminal acts that each candidate has committed. Then based on data they could show that if you want to vote for a criminal then Trump’s your man. This would be an objective way of showing that they support a non-criminal.
I canceled my WaPo after this terrible cowardice/greed from Bezos. I can't say I am surprised. WaPo has been bashing Biden and now Harris non stop for months, if not years. I feel bad for the columnists I do admire, but they are writing at a failed institution. I turrned to Substack months ago to get real coverage of this election. Democracy is on the chopping block, and timid/greedy billionaires are providing the guillotine.
It's ever so sad, but totally unsurprising that Bezos did this to preserve a revenue stream. After all, when you are a billionaire all you care about is becoming more of a billionaire. But he fails to understand that his revenue streams with the government will dry up faster than a desert wadi as all of those contracts go to Musk, Thiel and other billionaires who backed Trump politically and financially. It will all be for naught, and Bezos will be left with more money that God and a girlfriend who is more plastic than organic. And sad because he only has $200B instead of the $300B he lusts after. Bernie is right, billionaires should not exist.
I read every comment that you put into this article and they’re all true. Back in 1990 I had an interview with the Washington Post and it was between me and another person and they picked the other person. If I had been picked, I would probably still be working there . The Washington post was once the paper of journalist integrity. Now it is nothing but a tool for Trump. This is how democracy dies. Thanks for killing it Jeff Bezos!!!
just devastating, the intensity of the hurt and the eloquence of the writers.
I read Milbank and for now am holding. agree that the paper will have to earn back trust from scratch, but spent most of my work life in publishing and can't in good conscience hasten further layoffs or worse.
been wondering if Bezos thought any of this through and didn't care, or if none of it matters because his fear of Trump canceling Bezos' government contracts or messing with Amazon and Blue Apron (joke) trumps all. wondering if Bezos understands that he has probably lost the goodwill of many millions (not so many now, but contempt for him will spread) to fear, that it is not reclaimable, and that without it, his companies have seen their best days and this will be his legacy, as a traitor who gave away the credibility and honor of a beloved, venerable news institution during a crisis that could end the republic.
Jeffy just created massive public support for trust-busting his Amazon monopoly. When Amazon is broken up into a dozen pieces, and future Dem administrations cancel his space contracts he'll rue this cowardly WaPo "business decision."
For shame.
LA Times should be named Soon-Shiong Times.
Washington Post should be named Bezos Post.
Wall Street Journal should be named Murdoch Journal.
They do not serve Las Angeles, Washington, or Wall Street. They Serve Patrick Soon-Shiong, Jeff Bezos, And Rupert Murdoch. They are not used as newspapers, They are public relation firms masquerading as newspapers.
To be clear: it’s not that Bezos is afraid for his personal freedom, much less his life. He’s just afraid he’ll be a little bit less multibillionaire-y under Trump than he is now. That’s certainly worth the Post’s integrity and reputation, not to mention all the journalists and other employees who will inevitably lose their jobs because this catastrophic decision has made the Post less solvent. We should all be proud that Bezos’ choice was for a good cause: to maybe (but almost certainly not) protect a little bit of his unfathomable fortune from Trump’s vengeance, safe in the knowledge that he’d have nothing to worry about from a Harris administration.
True!!
After many decades of subscribing I canceled the NYT last summer for unfair hounding of President Biden in their debate coverage while they gave Trump a pass. I switched to the Philadelphia Inquirer and am happy with their coverage and the weiting of Will Bunch.
The Washington Post is in no way obligated to endorse anyone for president. In fact, it’s the job of newspapers to bring facts to the public and that’s it, not to make decisions for voters. To endorse either of these two strong supporters of genocide (Harris or Trump) would be irresponsible and egregious on the part of anyone with a sense of right and wrong. It’s not the obligation of any news outlet to endorse candidates. If they want to do so, it should be made clear that it’s simply an opinion. To be a fair outlet that has decided to make political recommendations, it should offer different viewpoints for/from opposing candidates. To those readers of WaPo who’ve decided to drop their subscriptions because of this issue, I can say with confidence, there are much better reasons to drop this paper with its sycophant “journalists” reproducing the government narrative verbatim rather than doing the right thing, real journalism without fear of consequences. You know, like Greenwald, Chomsky, Finkelstein, Lawrence, Mate, Halper, Abunimah, Assange, Levy, Hedges, Johnstone, Klarenberg, Kennard, Ritter, et.al. You do know real journalists can’t print at WaPo, the NYT, and LAT, don’t you?
after I read your comment, I wanted to think on it for a bit. You were right newspapers shouldn’t endorse a candidate even though a lot of new sources like Fox Newsmax are endorsing them throughout through propaganda and lies.
Jeff Bezos should’ve stopped this practice immediately upon taking ownership but he didn’t.
A republic is at a crossing road like Germany was back when Hitler was rising to power. There’s almost a sense of duty to report everything and not sugarcoat anything. That hasn’t always happened.
This practice could be more objective is by picking a criteria point such as criminal acts, and count how many criminal acts that each candidate has committed. Then based on data they could show that if you want to vote for a criminal then Trump’s your man. This would be an objective way of showing that they support a non-criminal.
I canceled my WaPo after this terrible cowardice/greed from Bezos. I can't say I am surprised. WaPo has been bashing Biden and now Harris non stop for months, if not years. I feel bad for the columnists I do admire, but they are writing at a failed institution. I turrned to Substack months ago to get real coverage of this election. Democracy is on the chopping block, and timid/greedy billionaires are providing the guillotine.
It's ever so sad, but totally unsurprising that Bezos did this to preserve a revenue stream. After all, when you are a billionaire all you care about is becoming more of a billionaire. But he fails to understand that his revenue streams with the government will dry up faster than a desert wadi as all of those contracts go to Musk, Thiel and other billionaires who backed Trump politically and financially. It will all be for naught, and Bezos will be left with more money that God and a girlfriend who is more plastic than organic. And sad because he only has $200B instead of the $300B he lusts after. Bernie is right, billionaires should not exist.
I too feel betrayed !
I will not cancel as I want to support all the great journalists whose honesty and views I do agree with
Rubin,Marcus Robinson,Dionne to name a few!..
I will cancel my Prime and also never shop at Whole Foods!
F— Bezoz !
Nancy
I read every comment that you put into this article and they’re all true. Back in 1990 I had an interview with the Washington Post and it was between me and another person and they picked the other person. If I had been picked, I would probably still be working there . The Washington post was once the paper of journalist integrity. Now it is nothing but a tool for Trump. This is how democracy dies. Thanks for killing it Jeff Bezos!!!
They FAFO'd.