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It would have been OK to decide to forbid endorsements a year earlier or just after the elections. The timing is extremely suspicious. Both Bezos and Patrick S
by nabla9 2y ago
It would have been OK to decide to forbid endorsements a year earlier or just after the elections.
The timing is extremely suspicious. Both Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong (LA Times) pushed this decision through suddenly at almost the same time. I don't believe the reasons given for making the decision suddenly now.
Trump has promised revenge if he wins. They caved under pressure or pivoted. If Trump gets an AG that does exactly what he wants, he will go after his enemies in courts, and other means. Bezos and other billionaires cave in when they face bigger power. Mohammed bin Salman hacked his phone and then killed his employer. Bezos prevented the release of the Jamal Khashoggi document in Amazon Prime so as not to anger MBS.
- aduffy 2y agoOstensibly, the LA Times owner's daughter claims that the decision not to endorse is tied to the Biden-Harris administrations stance on Gaza. Not sure whether to take that at face value or just a cop-out. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/us/los-angeles-times-endorsement-soon-shiong.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/us/los-angeles-times-endo...
- mandevil 2y agoThe same article notes that the newspaper itself and also the people who resigned from the paper over this say it has nothing to do with Gaza and his daughter was involved in none of the conversations about this. My best guess is that she tried to use a brief spurt of interest in her family to get attention for a cause she was invested in, but since it was a lie no one else backed her up.