Employees outraged at ‘chicken-shit’ move that breaks 30-year precedent, alleging Jeff Bezos quashed Harris support
There was uproar and outrage among the Washington Post’s current and former staffers and other notable figures in the world of American media after the newspaper’s leaders on Friday chose to not endorse any candidate in the US presidential election.
The newspaper’s publisher, Will Lewis, announced on Friday that for the first time in over 30 years, the paper’s editorial board would not be endorsing a candidate in this year’s presidential election, nor in future presidential elections.
After the news broke, reactions came flooding in, with people criticizing the decision, which, according to some staffers and reporters, was allegedly made by the Post’s owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos.
Karen Attiah, a columnist for the Washington Post who writes a weekly newsletter, called the decision an “absolute stab in the back”.
That’s how it goes on social media: you hope to have an intelligent conversation and you’d expect the mod points to express whether the person’s argument is worth discussing - even if you disagree with the person - or whether that person is a troll. But no: people use the mod points to express their disagreement.
Oh well… At least on Lemmy, points are meaningless and only hurt the feelings of those who care about them, and I really, REALLY don’t care 🙂