I had to do it. Jeff Bezos' cowardly veto of his newspaper's endorsement of Harris-Walz was too much. How could I have any confidence in an institution devoted to covering Washington after seeing its leadership run for cover (ineptly) at the approach of an aspiring fascist?
Historical experience suggests this won't shield Bezos unless he is more directly willing to lick Trump's ample ass; oligarchs lose under fascism. See also Mikhail Khodorkovsky who played footsie with Vladimir Putin to protect his oil wealth but lost it all and ended up in a gulag.
As media observer Nancy Gibbs writes:
[The Post's] “Democracy dies in darkness” motto now moans like an epitaph. ...
As of Tuesday morning, 200,000 of us have done this. It won't hurt Bezos; it will hurt the journalists. But I think it is worth setting this marker.
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