Woodward And Bernstein Blast Washington Post's 'Surprising' Decision Not To Endorse

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Source: Huff Post

Oct 26, 2024, 01:14 AM EDT | Updated 3 hours ago


Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the famed journalists whose reporting on the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post led to Richard Nixon’s resignation from the White House, questioned their former publication’s “surprising and disappointing” decision to not endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

“We respect the traditional independence of the editorial page,” began a joint statement from the pair, saying the paper’s decision “ignores the Washington Post’s own overwhelming reportorial evidence on the threat [GOP nominee and former President] Donald Trump poses to democracy.”

“Under Jeff Bezos’s ownership, the Washington Post’s news operation has used its abundant resources to rigorously investigate the danger and damage a second Trump presidency could cause to the future of American democracy and that makes this decision even more surprising and disappointing, especially this late in the electoral process,” the statement added.

The Post had drafted an endorsement of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris before the call to stop endorsing presidential candidates came from Bezos, the paper’s billionaire owner, according to the newspaper’s own reporting on the move. The Post’s nonendorsement in this year’s presidential election, its first since 1988, sparked in-house condemnations along with backlash across the media, including from the paper’s former Executive Editor Marty Baron.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bob-woodward-carl-bernstein-washington-post-decision-not-endorse_n_671c625ce4b0fdf4fef475a3

[FakeNoose]

1. Wow! They should cancel their subscriptions too, if they still read that rag

I know Carl Bernstein votes D, not sure about Woodward.
He used to vote R ... but I think he gave that up for Chump.

[Random Boomer]

2. It's not a rag

Washington Post is not a rag, which is a good part of why this is so painful. It's a damn good newspaper that is increasingly hobbled by the owner's self-interest.

I've canceled my subscription.

[soldierant]

4. I'd say it WAS a damn good newspaper.

With every hobble, subscribers leave and real journalists quit, which pushed the owner to hire hacks, And the newspaper slides farther dwnhill. With the right owner, it could be a damn good newspaper again - not that I see that happening.

[soldierant]

3. Had Bezos owned the Post during Watergate

(fortunately he was only around 10 at the time) Woosward and Bernstein would never have become househond names. He would never have allowed it.

[Evolve Dammit]

5. It's the owner. Same for LA Times and NY Times

[Evolve Dammit]

6. Wall Street Journal? Murdoch. Owners call the shots

[twodogsbarking]

7. They have seen a lot. At least hear them out.

[wolfie001]

8. I remember these RW Ghouls frequenting the editorial page:

Pat Buchanan, William Safire (ran a covert campaign to malign Bert Lance who never did anything wrong), George Will (stuffed shirt jackass), William F. Buckley (Gore Vidal crushed him in their debate). All four of these mf'ers (and many more) were a disgrace to any open and honest newspaper. They were perpetuating and burnishing the image of ronald reagan and trying to destroy what was left of the New Deal. Every year during the late '80s and all of the '90s, you could detect are slow shift rightward at that paper. I bought it for the crossword puzzle at work. Browsed the editorial page and because more and more outraged.