WAPO Buckles to Jeff Bezos Over Kamala Endorsement
The Washington Post has killed a planned editorial endorsement of Kamala Harris for President. Why? Because Post owner Jeff Bezos(who founded Amazon to become one of the world's richest persons) opposed it.
An endorsement of Harris had been drafted by Post editorial page staffers but had yet to be published, according to two people who were briefed on the sequence of events and who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The decision to no longer publish presidential endorsements was made by The Post’s owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to the same two people.
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