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No mystery about who Harry was referring to, despite not using his name.
As the hometown paper in the nation’s capital, the Post’s mission has long been to hold government accountable. Its staffers need to know that’s still the case.
The paper’s CEO, Will Lewis, is about to be caught up in a major trial in London being brought by Prince Harry against Rupert Murdoch.
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“The decision to end presidential endorsements was made entirely internally and neither campaign nor candidate was given a heads up or consulted in any way at any level,” said publisher Will Lewis.
“You don’t make these decisions eleven days before the election without any deliberation with the staff, with the draft editorial sitting on the table,” Marty Baron told the New Yorker.
The contentious race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, Alexandra Petri wrote, is “not an election for sitting out.”
Robert Kagan tells the Daily Beast that Donald Trump’s meeting with Blue Origin executives the day its founder Jeff Bezos killed his paper’s Kamala Harris endorsement is proof of a backroom deal.
The publisher claimed he himself didn’t believe in presidential endorsements—even though he tried to fight Bezos to keep the tradition alive.
Leading reporters and former editors speak out after Bezos quashed a Harris endorsement drafted by “Post” writers.
Legendary ex-editor Marty Baron is calling the move “cowardice.”
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