A Day that Will Live in Infamy in Jouralism

Following the lead of another billionaire-bought great newspaper (The Los Angeles Times), The Washington Post announced yesterday that it won’t endorse a candidate for President in the upcoming election. The Post’s publisher explained that non-endorsements of presidential candidates used to be the Post’s tradition before 1976, and it’s time to go back to that practice. In case some might ask, “Why now, on the eve of the most consequential election since at least 1860?” the publisher elaborated: Consider this to be “a statement in support of our readers’ ability to make up their own mind.” As if readers need the Post to be silent to make up their own minds!

This was, of course, a decision made by the Post’s owner, super billionaire Jeff Bezos. Like his even more pecuniarily bloated acquaintance, Elon Musk, Bezos is more interested in becoming richer and more powerful than in saving American democracy from a regime headed by a fascistic, aspiring autocrat.