Jeff Bezos, owner of The Washington Post, defended the newspaper’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate in the upcoming election, saying that endorsements create a perception of bias that has no impact on elections and contributes to the public’s loss of faith in traditional media.
“Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, ‘I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.’ None,” Bezos said in an Oct. 28 op-ed, which ran in his newspaper’s Oct. 29 print edition.
“What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one.”…