Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post, slammed the media’s left-wing bias in an op-ed published Monday night at the Post.
“In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress,” Bezos wrote. “But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.”
He said that newspaper must not only be accurate, but they must also be believed to be accurate, a measure that he says the media has failed miserably at because of bias.
The op-ed comes after the newspaper, one of the largest newspapers in the U.S., announced late last week that it was not endorsing a candidate for president this year — the first time the paper has not made an endorsement in decades.
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