If there's someone here who thinks billionaires owning our news isn't a problem then you should search the terms, USS Maine, Spanish-American War, and Yellow Journalism.
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Clearly unethical. They should have loudly proclaimed their support for Claudia de la Cruz.
Glad I stopped subscribing to the washingron post a few years ago.
The funny thing is, if they did endorse Harris, probably nobody would notice or care. But the fact that they were stopped from endorsing Harris is now a huge story.
Jeff Bezos, meet Barbara Streisand.
So the same people who spent almost a decade sanewashing trump and leaning into his candidacy for no reason other than morbid fascination and clicks are getting spanked out in public by the monster they created.
Sucks.
I'd be willing to bet that the billionaire owners had more to do with that than you think.
They don't spend all that money on trusted media outlets to not control the narrative.
Would this have been a bigger story if they did endorse?
No
I’m curious of who down the line capitulated to Bezos.
He could say “don’t endorse!” but someone there also has to say “ok boss!”
They could still run the endorsement. Someone may get fired for it, but Bezos isn’t down in the newsroom hitting the big STOP THE PRESSES button that shuts the whole operation down.
Read about the Milgram experiment, its depressing but this is how humans are
Welp, that's one hour down the wikipedia drain
well, apparently the toady they brought over from Murdochistan.
Now how will I know who to vote for?
Hehe. True. But also not the point.
Sigh...Billionaires buying America media and using it for their own ends is American as Apple pie. Hearst, Pulitzer, Luce, Murdock, now Bezos. I think the thing to say about this issue is Bezos is basically a Coward and not worth the time to think about.
Add Musk and Zuckerberg to that list, too, along with the various funds/groups that own Reddit. Trump could be on the list, too, though only his cult takes his seriously.
Social media works a bit differently but the end result is similar. Or worse, given how much things have accelerated in the couple of decades since social media made it to the main stream.
I wonder if we'll ever find out how many subscriptions they lost because of it.
Canceled mine immediately.
Same! Now I have NYT only although they spam like crazy. Reuters is going sub now so I’ll prob pick them up since I’ve been enjoying their stuff for years now.
Cousin works for Reuters. Fuck them. “Centrist” or “”unbiased”” means fucking dogshit, at least to me, these days.
There's unbiased as in, "if two groups disagree, we won't do anything to favour either side".
And then there unbiased as in, "we will report the facts as best as we can tell them, regardless of which sides, if any, those facts favour".
Reuters, as I understand it, is more the latter than the former. But too many major media organizations are the former.
Whichever one of those definitions of "unbiased" you subscribe to, the other will seem biased, unless both sides are doing the same thing (eg both lying or both being honest and accurate).
They just don't editorialise.
Yeah but most times I just want the news and not the talking heads. I like Reuters on in the morning with a cup of coffee.
I still have my NYT sub, I’ll be switching to games only next year though. The EIC there is a real piece of shit.
Said it in another post, but my main reason for keeping NYT is for their war and science reporting. There's only a handful of decent outfits to get quality reporting on global conflict: Bellingcat, NYT, and War Nerd, among others. NYT probably has the best funding so they have a pretty far reach. I can't think of another outfit that is actively reporting on Sudan, Bangladesh, Côte d'Ivoire, Central America, and a whole host of other areas.
Yeah the NYT, despite its flaws, isn’t beholden to a single person.