More than 250,000 Washington Post readers — or 10% of the newspaper’s customer base — have canceled their subscriptions after owner Jeff Bezos blocked its editorial board from publishing an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a report. NY Post reporter Ariel Zilber shares this story.
Over the weekend, the iconic broadsheet had lost 200,000 subscribers after it was first learned that management had decided it would no longer allow the editorial board to endorse a candidate for president in the current race as well as in future elections, according to media reports.
The mogul on Monday published an op-ed in his newspaper defending the move as “a principled decision” given that presidential endorsements “create a perception of bias.”
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