Tag: endorsements
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Jeff Bezos defends Washington Post’s decision to stop presidential endorsements days before election
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire Amazon founder who owns The Washington Post, defended the newspaper’s decision to stop endorsing presidential candidates, arguing in part that the move is a way to shore up credibility and combat perceptions of political bias. “Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania…
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The Washington Post will no longer make presidential endorsements
The Washington Post’s editorial page will not make a presidential endorsement this year or “in any future presidential election,” the newspaper’s publisher and chief executive officer announced Friday. “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…