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www.theguardian.com

Washington Post cartoon team skewers paper’s decision not to make endorsement

Paper has been pilloried for what some call ‘anticipatory obedience’ in preparation of a new president next year
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The WAPO knows that Heels Up Harris is losing.

A group of Michigan Muslims is at the podium at Trump’s Michigan rally supporting Trump…enthusiastically.

Lose Michigan and Harris loses the presidency.
 
Bezos embarrassed the paper and embarrassed himself more but the Post is hardly castrated, Today's editions are filled with commentary about
the decision, most of it shaming Bezos.
 
NakedHunterBiden said:
They are afraid to get rounded up and killed by trump if he wins.
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I bet it's even more venal than that: the current society is hyperpolarized so endorsements won't move the needle and somehow 50% of our nation's citizens have decided to abandon our common reality and I'm sure Bezos doesn't want to lose a lot of subscribers.

NOW, that being said, the likelihood that many Trump supporters have WaPo subscriptions is low. So it is probably just Bezos and his board trying to navigate the potential future. They know that if they endorse Kamala and Trump wins, Trump is vituperative enough to take it out on Bezos personally.

I think it's all $$$$$.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
The WaPo isn't the only one. The LA Times refused to make an endorsement too.
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I read that the other day.

Weird.

This is truly a strange election. I think it might be because the polity is so hyperpolarized that taking any stand significantly risks EXTREME blowback from either side.

This is what it looks like when profit > principles. But that's capitalism in a nutshell anyway.
 
Daylight63 said:
I read that the other day.

Weird.

This is truly a strange election. I think it might be because the polity is so hyperpolarized that taking any stand significantly risks EXTREME blowback from either side.

This is what it looks like when profit > principles. But that's capitalism in a nutshell anyway.
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Not weird. I think both papers, like Hume here, don't like how Harris was selected, see her as a disaster of a candidate, and won't support her out of some pavlovian desire to support all things Democrat and Leftist.
 
The real problem with folks like LATimes and WaPo sitting this one out is that their PRIMARY demographic (left leaning liberals and people who can read) is going to still take it as a form of implicit support of Trump.

So they are still going to pay a hefty price. And print media simply can't afford to do that these days. I predict they will lose so many subscribers for this action that it will effectively shutter the print forms of these businesses and hasten the end of our media landscape.

On the upside we are seeing a new crop of Randolph Hearsts willing to make up stories to drive division and get Americans to support bad decisions.

Seems more and more like we are going to the 1890's again with every day.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Not weird. I think both papers, like Hume here, don't like how Harris was selected, see her as a disaster of a candidate, and won't support her out of some pavlovian desire to support all things Democrat and Leftist.
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No. I've not met many dems who disagree with Harris as the candidate. We all saw that Joe was the less effective candidate. So we did exactly what your party would have done and selected another choice.

Sure there are a few folks who may not be happy but hardly enough for Bezos to risk WaPo's subscriber base to make some political point that resonates with only a fraction of a percent of the Left.
 
Daylight63 said:
No. I've not met many dems who disagree with Harris as the candidate. We all saw that Joe was the less effective candidate. So we did exactly what your party would have done and selected another choice.

Sure there are a few folks who may not be happy but hardly enough for Bezos to risk WaPo's subscriber base to make some political point that resonates with only a fraction of a percent of the Left.
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What I'm saying is they're going further. They know the ship is going down and they don't want to be on it when it does.
 
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