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Traditionally, newspapers have editorial boards that are separate from reporting. And traditionally, editorial boards make political endorsements. This is in ad
by standardUser 2y ago
Traditionally, newspapers have editorial boards that are separate from reporting. And traditionally, editorial boards make political endorsements. This is in addition to printing editorials and opinion pieces from a variety of perspectives.
All of that is separate from reporting, which strives to be objective. Both coexist within most media organizations. Fox News pioneered the blurring of those lines, but the lines remain clear at most traditional major media outlets.
This is a case of a major paper deviating from the norm and succumbing to political pressure, which is outside of the established norms in a society with a free press.
- mike_hearn 2y agoBezos says you're wrong and that he's changing the Post because of the polls that show nobody trusts the media anymore. The Post loses large sums of money because its costs are so high relative to its fairly small circulation, a problem that affects the entire US media business. He simply doesn't care what the "norms" of the newspaper business are because those norms have destroyed the industry. He seems particularly to be annoyed that podcasts/social media have outcompeted his paper. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezo...
- standardUser 2y agoBezos is completely out of touch like most billionaires.