Columnist Michele Norris says paper’s decision to withhold endorsement in US election was ‘terrible mistake’

A second high-profile Washington Post columnist has stepped down after the newspaper’s decision not to support Kamala Harris for president, as more readers announced the cancellation of their subscriptions.

Michele Norris, an opinion contributor at the Post and the first Black female host for National Public Radio (NPR), called the non-endorsement a “terrible mistake”.

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“In a moment like this, everyone needs to make their own decisions. The Washington Post’s decision to withhold an endorsement that had been written & approved in an election where core democratic principles are at stake was a terrible mistake & an insult to the paper’s own longstanding standard of regularly endorsing candidates since 1976.”

Norris follows in the footsteps of Robert Kagan, an editor-at-large who left the paper last week after its publisher and CEO, William Lewis, declared it would not endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential race.

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  • @BigDiction
    9•2 months ago

    You summed up my questions about the situation. I do not understand the change in course late in the election.

    If WaPo announced this in February, sure. It’s a little weird that news orgs officially endorse candidates.