Jeff Bezos Reveals Why Washington Post Didn’t Endorse a 2024 Candidate [Video]

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Washington Post, said in an op-ed published Monday that his newspaper did not endorse a political candidate in the 2024 election to help build trust with its readers.

Bezos said in his own editorial that the decision to not endorse a candidate was due to the dip in public trust in journalists and the media, adding that while newsrooms “must be accurate,” “we must be believed to be accurate.”

“Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election,” Bezos wrote. “No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, ‘I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.’ None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias.”

“Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one,” he added.

The editorial comes a few days after the Post’s publisher, William Lewis, wrote an op-ed announcing that the paper would not be endorsing either Vice President Kamala …