If you hear the sound of wailing tonight, it’s probably Washington Post columnists screaming out of their windows. WaPo owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos finally weighed in on the endorsement controversy embroiling his newsroom, and what he had to say just might cause even more editors and staff to resign.
The controversy stems from his spiking a planned endorsement for Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Instead of backing her as everyone expected, he ordered that they endorse no one.
Why might his Monday op-ed in his own paper freak out many of the staff even more? Because he delivers some hard truths:
In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is…
