My initial thought was they had decided to try appearing to be more factual rather than cheerleaders for their preferred political party. Perhaps it would be better for business, right?
But other people have a much different interpretation the decision. From the article linked to above:
… a desire to avoid angering Donald Trump, and/or a move to avoid angering readers.
I never saw that coming. After calling him a threat to democracy, a felon, a rapist, and literally Hitler they are now concerned endorsing Harris will make Trump and/or his supporters angry. Really?
That sounds like the rational of a paranoid person. They have the mindset that Trump is incredibly evil and will use any power he acquires to exact a business and/or life-threatening revenge. And anyone that appears to give Trump the slightest of concessions must be doing it out of fear.
But shouldn’t the failure to endorse Harris result in a concern about invoking her wrath?
See also:
- Washington Post declines to endorse a presidential candidate, angering staffers and subscribers – CBS News
- The Washington Post ends backing presidential candidates as paper says Bezos axed Harris endorsement
- LA Times and Washington Post Kill Endorsements: Do They Matter?
- Washington Post not endorsing presidential candidate for first time in decades
What I find most interesting is that my immediate thought of why they did that apparently did not occur to anyone writing in the legacy news media. I am not a normal person.
We are normal, sane and rational.
They are not
Dead link.
Perhaps it is just the owners trying to remove the squatters from their property.
My fault.
Fixed.
Thank you!
“The Washington Post ends backing presidential candidates as paper says Bezos axed Harris endorsement.”
Bingo! The bitch is just flat-out bad for business.
If they can steal enough votes he gets screwed anyhow. He’ll just have to live out his days on his 400′ yacht and off-shore bank accounts.
If Trump is elected. Bezos can cut all kinds of deals.
The LA times? Everyone that reads their rag is voting commie no matter who it is. So why waste ink?
That and there is no case to be made for her, or her accomplishments. Other than saying she’s on her knees more than the pope. And can produce enough vacuum to boil water?
Saying she sucks doesn’t cover the whole story. The likes of which their readers don’t want to know anyway.
So, best not say anything.
We might be looking at the early stages of a “pre-preference cascade” is such a thing exists.
The Post is circling the drain; circulation is way down and estimates are that without Bezos Bucks it cannot continue. Last time I was in D.C. I noticed the daily had barely more pages than the average high school newspaper. It will follow the Hemingway character Mike Campbell’s business process – “gradually, then suddenly” – and one morning some (specifically, no longer “many”) will wake up and find there’s no Post on the front porch and hear why only from other media sources. Once a threshold is reached advertisers will desert en masse and that’s that. Even Bezos is probably smart enough to know when to Call It a Day.
Print media, in general, is “not doing well” and the same is starting to apply to some areas of “traditional” electronic media. CBS, never a stalwart purveyor of truth, is facing a freshly renewed rocky future as a result of the 60 Minutes legerdemain with Harris, ABC’s reputation,nothign to write home about before, became sullied a great deal more after it’s moderators’ debate performance, NBC has always been In The Tank so it’s losing viewers, albeit more slowly than the others. Have no fear, however, because NBC will find a new and different way to tread upon its Important Bits while wearing golf shoes sooner or later (“traditional” network TV has, so far, been able to isolate “News” from “Entertaiment” activities; I’m curious about at which point, or even “if,” viewers assume the News Division cancer has metastisized into other network activities far enough to render them too unreliable to watch as well).
Alternative media via smartphones is finally beginning to affect the center of the population bell curve; the tails will still embrace the sources they always have, but the tails in any normal distribution are pretty small and tend to stay that way.
Will Leftist Money Infusion make a difference? Maybe. Maybe not. We’ll see. If Bezos, the Sulzbergers and the Soon-Shiongs et al chose to ride their respective horses all the way down the hill and into the river it may be A Sign that money and committment outweigh rationality and accounting.
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