The second reporter has quit from the Washington Post in protest after the newspaper failed to endorse Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
The employees resigned from the Post following the outlet’s Friday announcement that the outlet with not endorse any presidential candidate for the 2024 election.
Michele Norris said the non-endorsement was a “terrible mistake” as she quit her job at the newspaper.
She argues that the decision is an insult to the paper’s longstanding practice of endorsing a candidate–almost always a Democrat.
However, due to Norris’s links to top Democrats, such as Michelle Obama, she is probably taking the news outlet’s snub of Harris personally.
Robert Kagan also resigned in response to the move.
18 other Post journalists signed a written dissent of the decision.
They said that it “represents an abandonment of the fundamental editorial convictions of the newspaper that we love, and for which we have worked a combined 228 years.”
Ruth Marcus and Karen Tumulty also wrote columns expressing their views that the decision damaged the publication’s credibility.
As Slay News reported earlier, the Post is now panicking after 200,000 readers canceled their digital subscriptions to the paper over the decision.
Others claim that the decision is helping President Donald Trump’s cause and letting him win.
Some even argue that the Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, ordered the move in order to help Trump.
The cancellations represent 8% of the total number of about 2.5 million, including print subscriptions.
It comes as the presidential race is extremely close.
Trump is only polling .2% above Harris nationally and .9% in battleground states with only a week until the election, according to RealClearPolitics.
Still, it is a far cry from 2020, when Biden was polling with a 7-point lead nationally.
Biden won the popular vote by 4.4%.
But he only won in several swing states by a fraction of a percentage, meaning that if the electorate has moved six or seven points to the right, Trump will have an easy time amassing the 270 electoral votes he needs.
The fact that the Post–or Bezos–has withheld any endorsement says that maybe the whole “threat to democracy” narrative is nothing more than a political hammer to wield.
If Bezos truly thought Trump would bring an end to democracy, his paper would have endorsed Harris.
In truth, Harris has promised more policies that threaten democracy than anything Trump has done or said he would do.
And Bezos knows it, no matter his own personal leanings in politics.
