On Friday, the Washington Post’s publisher, Will Lewis, announced that the paper would no longer make endorsements for president, after the paper’s journalists had already drafted an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. Over a period of several weeks, a Post staffer told me, two Post board members, Charles Lane and Stephen W. Stromberg, had […]
Ian Bassin, a democracy expert, calls these moves “anticipatory obedience”: fear by owners that if Trump wins he could take vengeance on companies that cross him. They noted that the leadership at CNN and the Post changed after the Trump administration tried to block the takeover of CNN’s parent company and tried to deny a cloud computing contract for Amazon, whose founder, Jeff Bezos, owns the Post.
That is so fucked up
“We’re of afraid of the fascist, so we will help him get elected”
Ok.
Spineless cowards.