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    Washington Post’s non-endorsement sparks backlash from journalists and celebrities

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    Republishing the news of the non-endorsement on the social media site of January 6. Harvard University alumna Alexandra Petri posted screenshots of one of her latest articles, noting that “it is incumbent on me, the humor columnist, to support Harris at the presidency”.

    Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the reporting team that revealed the Watergate scandal for the Post, issued a joint statement calling the decision “disappointing.” Robert Ellsberg, son of whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the Washington Post, cited the example set by former Washington Post publisher and owner Katharine Graham.

    “She was warned that the survival of her newspaper was at stake. She did not blink,” Ellsberg wrote.

    Marty Baron, who was editor-in-chief of the Post until 2021 (and former editor-in-chief of the Boston Globe), also condemned the decision on social mediaand said in an interview with the Globe over the weekend, “what the Post demonstrated was weakness.”

    Caroline Kitchener, an abortion reporter at the Washington Post, revealed that her mother had canceled her subscription to the Post, a decision echoed by myriad other Post subscribers – 2.5 million people, from last year. In a thread on X, Kitchener wrote that “when you cancel, you’re hurting us, not our landlord.”

    “I completely understand if you have lost faith in our landlord, but please don’t lose faith in us,” she wrote. “We have so much work to do.”

    But many high-profile figures have made the same call as Kitchener’s mother, posting that they had ended their subscriptions, from horror author Stephen King to politician Liz Cheney to “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill.

    Others, including many journalists, urged their readers to cancel their subscriptions to Amazon Prime rather than the Washington Post (founded by Bezos). Amazon). They say this will put financial pressure on Bezos without potentially affecting Washington Post journalists as collateral damage.

    The Post is the second major newspaper to announce this month that it will not support a presidential candidate, after the Los Angeles Times, owned by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, who ran his own newspaper. cascade of resignations and blowbacks.

    Dana Gerber can be contacted at [email protected]. Follow her @danagerber6.

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