Billionaires have broken media: Washington Post's non-endorsement is a sickening moral collapse [View all]
By Dan Froomkin
The shocking decision by The Washington Post not to make an endorsement in the presidential election — breaking with a decades long tradition — is an extremely powerful statement. A non-endorsement says Donald Trump is a reasonable choice.
It says: We are so terrified of a Trump presidency that we are bending the knee in advance. Most importantly, it makes clear that owner Jeff Bezos doesn’t want to lose government business in a second Trump administration.
These institutions are not just succumbing to authoritarianism, they are advancing it.
I can’t imagine statements any more inappropriate from the newspaper of Watergate, the newspaper I spent 12 years working my ass off for. It’s heartbreaking. It makes me sick to my stomach.
https://www.salon.com/2024/10/25/billionaires-have-broken-media-washington-posts-non-endorsement-is-a-sickening-moral-collapse/
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