{"id":91420,"date":"2024-10-26T09:54:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T09:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=91420"},"modified":"2024-10-26T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T09:54:33","slug":"washington-post-refuses-to-endorse-harris-or-trump-in-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/91420\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post refuses to endorse Harris or Trump in election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan(National Times)- Amazon billionaire owned influential newspaper,\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>, has said it will endorse neither Kamala Harris nor her Republican opponent Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential election\u00a0 In a statement released on Friday, the paper&#8217;s CEO William Lewis said this was a return &#8220;to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.&#8221; However, the\u00a0<em>Post\u00a0<\/em>editorial board has endorsed candidates for much of the last four decades \u2014 all of them Democrats \u2014 before deciding to stay on the sidelines in one of the most polarising elections in US history. Newspaper editorials have little of their once-powerful political heft. But the\u00a0<em>Post\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 whose slogan is &#8220;Democracy dies in darkness&#8221; \u2014 is one traditional media outlet that retains influence among Washington&#8217;s elite. Trump&#8217;s campaign quickly pounced, crowing that &#8220;Harris is so bad,\u00a0<em>The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>decided to never endorse another presidential candidate again.&#8221; <em>The Washington Post Guild<\/em>, which represents unionised staff at the newspaper, said it was &#8220;deeply concerned.&#8221; &#8220;We are already seeing cancellations from once loyal readers,&#8221; a statement said. US media reported that a senior\u00a0<em>Post\u00a0<\/em>figure, editor at large Robert Kagan, had resigned in protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Billionaire owners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<em>Post&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0decision follows a similar move by another of the big remaining US newspapers, the\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>. The billionaire owner of the\u00a0<em>Times\u00a0<\/em>blocked the editorial board from issuing an endorsement for Harris, according to editorial editor Mariel Garza, who resigned in response on Wednesday. According to a report by\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0on its website, Bezos likewise intervened to block the board from publishing its editorial in favor of Harris. However, a source close to the\u00a0<em>Post&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0leadership told\u00a0<em>AFP\u00a0<\/em>that this &#8220;is inaccurate. &#8220;By contrast,\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0endorsed Harris in September, calling her &#8220;the only patriotic choice for president&#8221; and warning that &#8220;it is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States&#8221; than Trump. On Friday, Harris also scored the backing of\u00a0<em>The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>, the biggest newspaper in swing state Pennsylvania, which declared that &#8220;voters face an easy but tectonic choice.&#8221; The Republican got his own boost Friday from the\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>, the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid, which declared that &#8220;America is ready for today&#8217;s heroic Donald Trump to reclaim the presidency.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8216;Cowardice&#8217;?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement,\u00a0<em>The Washington Post&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0Lewis wrote that the paper would not make presidential endorsements again. &#8220;Our job at\u00a0<em>The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>is to provide through the newsroom non-partisan news for all Americans, and thought-provoking, reported views from our opinion team to help our readers make up their own minds,&#8221; he said. The\u00a0<em>Post<\/em>\u00a0has been endorsing Democratic candidates consistently as far back as the 1980s, always making clear that the editorial board works separately to the newsgathering operation \u2014 as is typical in US news organisations. The\u00a0<em>Post&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0former executive editor, Marty Baron, lashed out at the daily&#8217;s &#8220;cowardice, with democracy as its casualty.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan(National Times)- Amazon billionaire owned influential newspaper,\u00a0The Washington Post, has said it will endorse neither Kamala Harris nor her Republican opponent Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential election\u00a0 In a statement released on Friday, the paper&#8217;s CEO William Lewis said this was a return &#8220;to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.&#8221; However, the\u00a0Post\u00a0editorial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Washington Post refuses to endorse Harris or Trump in election - Nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/91420\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Washington Post refuses to endorse Harris or Trump in election - Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pakistan(National Times)- Amazon billionaire owned influential newspaper,\u00a0The Washington Post, has said it will endorse neither Kamala Harris nor her Republican opponent Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential election\u00a0 In a statement released on Friday, the paper&#8217;s CEO William Lewis said this was a return &#8220;to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.&#8221; However, the\u00a0Post\u00a0editorial [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/91420\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-26T09:54:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/trumpvsharris-1727926506-17279-2683-4296-1729906734.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"680\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"408\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"humza Jahangir\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"humza Jahangir\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/91420\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/91420\/\",\"name\":\"Washington Post refuses to endorse Harris or Trump in election - Nation\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/91420\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/91420\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/trumpvsharris-1727926506-17279-2683-4296-1729906734.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-26T09:54:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/#\/schema\/person\/27efa35fa76e99f3ad7e7397d7332c16\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/91420\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/91420\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/91420\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/trumpvsharris-1727926506-17279-2683-4296-1729906734.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/trumpvsharris-1727926506-17279-2683-4296-1729906734.jpg\",\"width\":680,\"height\":408,\"caption\":\"(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on September 10, 2024 shows former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) and US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris participating in a presidential debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 2024. 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