More than 200,000 people have canceled their subscriptions to the Washington Post — about 8% of its base — after Jeff Bezos, the paper’s owner and founder of Amazon, barred the editorial board from running a presidential endorsement, according to a report. NPR, citing anonymous sources, cited the figure in a report and said the…
Amazon Prime Video has announced it will stream the U.S. election with former NBC News anchor Brian Williams, as Jeff Bezos faces backlash for The Washington Post’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate for the first time in 36 years. Bezos’ multi-trillion-dollar company released a trailer for its election coverage program, Election Night Live,…
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has reportedly given the newspaper a mandate to add more conservative voices to its opinion section — even as he remains silent over the broadsheet’s decision not to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. Bezos — the world’s second richest person with a fortune that Bloomberg Billionaires Index…
Jeff Bezos’s newspaper The Washington Post decided not to endorse a presidential candidate. The billionaire has been less prominent in the election than Elon Musk — but still has much at stake. Bezos’s Blue Origin is working with NASA and the Pentagon as it plays catch-up with Musk’s SpaceX. Thanks for signing up! Access your…
A high ranking former editor at the Washington Post is claiming that the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, entered into a quid-pro-quo agreement with former President Donald Trump to kill the newspaper’s planned endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. Longtime Post editor-at-large Robert Kagan, who quit after the non-endorsement on Friday, told The Daily Beast that…
Washington Post CEO Williams Lewis said he pulled the plug on the paper’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris – amid fierce backlash that owner Jeff Bezos was responsible for the controversial decision. Lewis rejected claims the Amazon billionaire killed the already planned endorsement for the Democratic nominee – breaking 36 years of tradition at…
Jeff Bezos was criticized as Washington Post announced it would not endorse any presidential candidate this time. After the Washington Post announced that it won’t endorse any presidential candidate in this election, calls for boycotting Amazon trended on X as Amazon and Washington Post both are owned by Jeff Bezos. Reports claimed that Jeff Bezos…
The Washington Post’s decision not to endorse any candidate in the 2024 presidential election has not only sparked outrage among its current and former staffers, but also led to a spree of subscription cancellations. Within 24 hours of the newspaper’s publisher announcing its decision, a first in 36 years, more than 2,000 subscribers cancelled their…
The Washington Post’s bombshell decision to skip endorsing a candidate in this year’s presidential race, making it the second biggest newspaper to do this after the LA Times has set off a firestorm among readers, political insiders, and journalists alike. Readers React to WaPo’s Decision Not to Endorse Either Trump or Harris(AP) After reports surfaced…
“Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” Timothy Sydner, On Tyranny (2017) It is vital that we…