Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris

[John Clark]

Actually this may help Harris more than an endorsement would, and Bezos won't end up in one of Trump's gulags if he wins. 

Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris

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[Terren Suydam]

How does this help Harris?

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[Will Steinberg]

How could this possibly help her???

On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 4:51 PM John Clark <johnk...@gmail.com> wrote:

[John Clark]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 4:53 PM Terren Suydam <terren...@gmail.com> wrote:

> How does this help Harris?

The Washington Post published an article saying that we, the editors of the newspaper, were all set to endorse Kamala Harris but our billionaire boss made us stop. I think that would convince more people to vote for Harris then if they just published an article endorsing Harris. And I have some sympathy for Bezos's reluctance to endanger his life, Trump's best friend Vladimir Putin has demonstrated that he it's perfectly willing tothrow billionaires into his Gulag if they demonstrate insufficient enthusiasm for his regime, and I have no reason to think that a fascist who loves Hitler like convicted felon Donald Trump would hesitate to do the same thing if he gets back in power.  

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[Terren Suydam]

Fair point. It could be argued though that for undecided voters who won't read the editor's article, the headline that they're not endorsing Harris as expected would confirm their own suspicions about Harris and make a vote for Trump more likely.

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[Will Steinberg]

This seems most likely.  People don’t look into things much.  As well, Bezos had the WaPo in 2016 and 2020 and didn’t fail to endorse Dems, so it still looks bad.  John is imbibing some powerful copium here imo

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[Giulio Prisco]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 10:51 PM John Clark <johnk...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Actually this may help Harris more than an endorsement would, and Bezos won't end up in one of Trump's gulags if he wins.
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> Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris
>

I don't think this will have much of an effect either way.
However, to me things are simple: there is partisan media, and there
is factual/objective media. That a partisan media outlet endorses a
political party is perfectly fine (it is their very reason-d'etre).
But a media outlet that endorses a political party can not claim to be
factual/objective.

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[John Clark]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 1:02 AM Giulio Prisco <giu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think this will have much of an effect either way.

In the 19th and 20th centuries newspaper endorsements were very important but not anymore. I think a non-endorsement and a story about that non-endorsement will have a greater punch then an endorsement would. Now the effect on the election will be tiny but no longer very tiny.  

And in the US it has NOT been standard operating procedure for the losing presidential candidate to claim that the election had been a fraud, that all started with coup d'état instigator Trump, and not in 2020 but in 2016 even though he won (the electoral vote not the popular vote). In 2016 Trump insisted that if it wasn't for it being a crooked election  he would've won by even more. Forget about being a sore loser, Trump is a sore winner.  

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