Bezos defends his decision to kill the WaPo's Presidential endorsement by:
- Making it clear that the claims of William Lewis (the paper's publisher and CEO) that the decision to not endorse a presidential candidate this year was not Bezos' decision and had nothing to do with him, was utter bullshit.
- Arguing that presidential endorsements only create a perception of bias that undermines the paper's mission. Which is an argument. But it doesn't explain why the Post is just stopping presidential endorsements. Wouldn't any endorsement create a perception of bias? (and for that matter, doesn't putting the opinion piece of the paper's billionaire owner at the very top of the Washington Post home page create a huge perception of bias?)
- Demonstrating that all those cancelations do matter to Bezos.
