Jeff Bezos defends decision to end Washington Post’s presidential endorsements – Times of India
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of Washington Post, whose decision to end presidential endorsements at the paper set off a firestorm last week, said Monday in his first comments about the change that it had been done to improve the newsroom's credibility, not to protect his own interests."Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election," Bezos wrote in an essay published on The Post's website. "What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it's the right one."The paper had announced the decision to end endorsements Friday. Some speculated that Bezos, who has owned the paper since 2013, was trying to gain favour with a potential Trump administration. The paper's e...