{"id":145309,"date":"2024-10-26T16:07:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T23:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145309"},"modified":"2024-10-26T16:07:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T23:07:52","slug":"washington-post-jeff-bezos-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/10\/26\/washington-post-jeff-bezos-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post &#8211; Jeff Bezos is Right!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Prof. Hudson McLean<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Media Must be Independent Keep Out of Politics!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/26\/media\/washington-post-jeff-bezos-endorsement-turmoil\/index.html\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/26\/media\/washington-post-jeff-bezos-endorsement-turmoil\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Washington Post is in deep turmoil as Bezos remains silent on non-endorsement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/hadas-gold\">Hadas Gold<\/a>, CNN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New YorkCNN&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day after The Washington Post announced it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/25\/media\/washington-post-wont-endorse-presidential-candidate\/index.html\">would not endorse<\/a>&nbsp;a presidential candidate in this year\u2019s election or in the future, its billionaire owner remains silent as the newspaper\u2019s staff are in turmoil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeff Bezos has so far declined to comment on the situation, even as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/media\/2024\/10\/25\/washington-post-endorsement-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his own paper\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;journalists reported that it was Bezos who ultimately spiked the planned endorsement. A source with knowledge told CNN on Friday that&nbsp;an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris had been drafted before it was squashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last&nbsp;24&nbsp;hours, at least one&nbsp;editor&nbsp;has resigned, and high-profile Post&nbsp;staffers&nbsp;have publicly expressed their dismay as many in&nbsp;the paper\u2019s&nbsp;Opinion section&nbsp;are&nbsp;furious&nbsp;over how the situation was handled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many current and former staffers of the\u00a0venerable newspaper, the timing of the announcement was highly suspect and has led them to believe Bezos\u2019s business interests influenced the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Full Story<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/26\/media\/washington-post-jeff-bezos-endorsement-turmoil\/index.html\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/26\/media\/washington-post-jeff-bezos-endorsement-turmoil\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Hudson McLean Media Must be Independent Keep Out of Politics! https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/26\/media\/washington-post-jeff-bezos-endorsement-turmoil\/index.html The Washington Post is in deep turmoil as Bezos remains silent on non-endorsement By\u00a0Hadas Gold, CNN New YorkCNN&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp; One day after The Washington Post announced it&nbsp;would not endorse&nbsp;a presidential candidate in this year\u2019s election or in the future, its billionaire owner remains silent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hudson-mclean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}