Less than 2 weeks before Election Day, The Washington Post stated Friday it would not back a prospect for president in this year’s securely objectedto race and would prevent doing so in the future — a choice rightaway condemned by a previous executive editor however one that the existing publisher firmlyinsisted was “consistent with the worths the Post has constantly stood for.”
In an shortarticle published on the front of its site, the Post — reporting on its own inner operations — likewise estimated unknown sources within the publication as stating that an recommendation of Kamala Harris over Donald Trump hadactually been composed however not released. Those sources informed the Post pressreporters that the business’s owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos, made the choice.
The Post’s publisher, Will Lewis, composed in a column that the choice was really a return to a custom the paper had years ago of not backing prospects. He stated it showed the paper’s faith in “our readers’ capability to make up their own minds.”
“We acknowledge that this will be checkout in a variety of methods, consistingof as a implied recommendation of one prospect, or as a condemnation of another, or as an abdication of obligation. That is unavoidable,” Lewis composed. “We puton’t see it that method. We see it as constant with the worths the Post has constantly stood for and what we hope for in a leader: character and nerve in service to the American ethic, veneration for the guideline of law, and regard for human liberty in all its elements.”
There was no instant response from either project.
Lewis pointedout the Post’s history in composing about the choice. According to him, the Post just began frequently backing prospects for president when it backed Jimmy Carter in 1976.
The Post stated the choice had “roiled” numerous on the viewpoint personnel, which runs individually from the Post’s newsroom personnel — what is understood typically in the market as a “church-state separation” inbetween those who report the news and those who compose viewpoint.
The Post’s relocation comes the exactsame week that the Los Angeles Times revealed a comparable choice, which activated the resignations of its editorial page editor and 2 other members of the editorial board. In that circumstances, the Times’ owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, firmlyinsisted he had not censored the editorial board, which had prepared to back Harris.
“As an owner, I’m on the editorial board and I shared with our editors that perhaps this year we have a column, a page, 2 pages, if we desire, of all the pros and all the cons and let the readers choose,” Soon-Shiong stated in an interview Thursday with Spectrum News. He stated he feared backing a prospect would include to the nation’s department.
In August, the recently