Bezos, the CEO of Amazon and owner of the Post, said the decision is intended to help build back trust with the public.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Washington Post, said in an op-ed published Monday that his newspaper did not endorse a political candidate in the 2024 election to help build trust with its readers.Bezos said in his own editorial that the decision to not endorse a candidate was due to the dip in public trust in journalists and the media, adding that while newsrooms 'must be accurate,' 'we must be believed to be accurate.
'But the fact is, I didn't know about the meeting beforehand. Even Limp didn't know about it in advance; the meeting was scheduled quickly that morning.'The Post's outgoing editor-at-large, Robert Kagan, resigned from his position on Friday, and told The Daily Beast that Trump and Limp's meeting was 'proof of a backroom deal.
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