Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.owner Jeff Bezos, shown above next to his wife, Lauren Sanchez, and other digital titans, at the inauguration of President Trump in January, has written:"When it comes to the appearance of conflict, I am not an ideal owner of TheA year ago, in explaining why he had blocked the publication of an endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris,editorial has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake.
In each case, thedefended President Trump's jaw-dropping moves to raze the East Wing of the White House without any of the typically required studies or consultations as he seeks to build a vast ballroom."Trump's undertaking is a shot across the bow at NIMBYs everywhere," theof the Amazon donation into the editorial – but only once the veteran news executive Bill Grueskin, now at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, noted its absence in a social media post and made inquiries at the paper. It did not flag the alteration for readers.and Bloomberg, had written the editorial's fundamental reasoning"illustrates the collapse of the new Washpost Opinion page" and noted there was"no clarification or correction appended to the piece." and its new opinions editor, Adam O'Neal, did not reply to detailed requests for comment for this story.O'Neal was brought in by Bezos this summer after the corporate titan tore up his paper's opinion section.more than 300,000 cancellations by digital subscribers. Bezos' Amazon contributed $1 million toward the Trump inauguration; its video streaming service Amazon Prime paid $40 million to license a documentary about first lady Melania Trump. The For the newspaper's owner to have outside business holdings or activities that might intersect with coverage or commentary is conventionally seen to present at the least a perception of a conflict of interest. Newspapers typically manage the perception with transparency.has resolutely revealed such entanglements to readers of news coverage or commentary in the past, whether the Graham family's holdings, which included the Stanley Kaplan educational company and Slate magazine, or, since 2013, those of Bezos, who founded Amazon and Blue Origin. Even now, the newspaper's reporters do so as a matter of routine."Believing very fervently that disclosure resolved a lot of concerns, we never knowingly failed to disclose" such conflicts, Ruth Marcus, a former deputy editorial page editor at the, saying Publisher Will Lewis had killed a column she wrote on changes in the page's direction. She wrote in her resignation letter that Bezos' edict that the page would not include opposing viewpoints"threatens to break the trust of readers that columnists are writing what they believe, not what the owner has deemed acceptable." Two separate but recent incidents suggest the lack of disclosure on the editorial about the White House renovations was not an isolated case.heralded the military's push for a new generation of smaller nuclear reactors."No 'microreactor' currently operates in the United States, but it's a worthy gamble that could provide benefits far beyond its military applications,"weighed in on the need for local authorities in Washington, D.C., to speed the approval of the use of self-driving cars in the nation's capital."It strikes me that the failure to do this is concerning – whether out of negligence or worse," says Marcus, the former deputy editorial page editor."I think telling your readers that there might be a conflict in whatever they're reading is always important. It's a lot more important when it involves whoever the owner is." In explaining his decision on the Harris editorial, which foreshadowed the more sweeping changes in the paper's opinion section, Bezos wrote,"I once wrote that
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