Jeff Bezos , the billionaire Amazon founder, who bought Washington Post
in 2013, insisted that newspaper endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election but instead create a perception of bias.
By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but it is a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy.
Bezos denied there was any quid pro quo that motivated the decision and insisted the meeting the boss of his company Blue Origin had with former President Trump, which occurred the day of the announcement, was a regretful coincidence, flatly saying There is no connection between it and our decision on presidential endorsements, and any suggestion otherwise is false.
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