The owner, Bezos, forced the editorial staff to not publish an endorsement of Harris
The editorial staff are in more or less open revolt, and large numbers of subscribers have canceled their subscriptions and committed to not buying from Amazon.
An independent newspaper might someday choose to back away from making presidential endorsements. But this isn’t the right moment, when one candidate is advocating positions that directly threaten freedom of the press and the values of the Constitution.
Beautifully put.
Makes me hope even more that Harris will tax these fuckers into oblivion. Nobody should be a billionaire period. And wealthy individuals shouldn’t have enough power to be able to impact elections.
Strong worded letter again. As long as they still come to work tomorrow, Bezos can use them as he likes.
There have already been resignations over it. Not quite sure how many
Instead of resigning individually, they should strike collectively.
It’s got to start somewhere, and it usually starts small. Let’s focus on building up the momentum, so that little snowball turns into an avalanche.
You can’t blame people for needing a job. They probably don’t exactly have a choice other than to keep working.
So the endorsement ban publicized their stance even more widely. I don’t even know whom any other newspaper endorsed.
I know who the LA Times endorsed. (Exact same thing happened there.)
Oh that’s good.
If a couple percent of the population stops shopping there, Amazon will miss it’s quarterly numbers and the stock price will fall sharply.
I’m having trouble being outraged by a robber-Barron trying to influence American politics by controlling a media outlet, because to do so would imply that that is outside the norm or unusual in some way.
This isn’t even recent. We once occupied the Philippines and continue to occupy Guantanamo Bay behind the yellow journalism of rich cunt newspapermen Herst and Pulitzer who were in a competition to out lie each other, that was 1898.
It’s not like Bezos is there running anything day to day. Management could ignore him, say OK sure thing boss, and print it anyway. What’s he gonna do? Fire them? 🤷
What’s he gonna do? Fire them? 🤷
…yes.
Did WaPo change their byline to this, or is this OP satire?
I don’t think avoiding Amazon or boycotts can have an effect on someone with that ridiculous concentration of wealth, but I admire the effort and expression of distaste.
