The billionaire owner said the decision was a “principled” one and dismissed the importance of newspaper endorsements.
op-ed on Monday, claiming the decision was a “principled” one and that there was no quid-pro-quo arrangement with any presidential candidate.s nearly 50-year tradition of endorsing presidential candidates, plunging the paper into a four-day period of chaos that has seen two editorial board membersreportedly cancel their subscriptions—an unprecedented response to an editorial decision that risks sending a financially flagging paper further into the red.
Bezos also pushed back against the notion he made a deal with either candidate—namely former President Donald Trump—that prompted him to scuttle the endorsement. Former editor-at-large Robert Kagan, who left the paper on Friday over the endorsement decision,Bezos of a quid-pro-quo after executives at Bezos' space company Blue Origin met with Trump on Friday hours after news of the decision broke.
Such conflicts—and the appearance of them—are not lost on Bezos, he wrote. “When it comes to the appearance of conflict, I am not an ideal owner of The Post,” he wrote. “Every day, somewhere, some Amazon executive or Blue Origin executive or someone from the other philanthropies and companies I own or invest in is meeting with government officials. I once wrote that The Post is a “complexifier” for me. It is, but it turns out I’m also a complexifier for The Post.
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