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Columbia Journalism Review

Faith and Perfidy at the Washington Post

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Jeff Bezos has ordered the Washington Post's editorial board not to endorse a presidential candidate.

Bob Greene : Bezos is treating a newspaper as if it were any commodity.

Greene: The problem isn’t money, it’s the way one looks at money.

He says if Bezos and Soon-Shiong are loath to support Kamala Harris over Donald Trump , their papers’ editorial boards’ likely decision is likely to be their own.

Greene asks: Would readers be swayed by the passion and language of a good editorial?.

David Hoffman , a forty-two-year veteran of the Post , is leaving the editorial board, though he plans to continue writing for the paper.

Rosenblatt: The blocking of the endorsement has already triggered an exodus from the paper: columnists Robert Kagan and Michele Norris have resigned, along with editorial writer Molly Roberts .