• BigAssFan@lemmy.world
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    The number of subscriptions has gone down by 10% already. That’s what happens when billionaires interfere with media, apparently.

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    If literally nobody gives a shit about the endorsement then blocking it is a pointless gesture and not going to increase credibility with anyone by his own admission, Is what I would say if it wasn’t obviously another billionaire oligarch putting his finger on the scale of democracy then saying it isn’t or it’s justified.

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    Lol. It wasn’t the “Washington Post” who decided that. It was the owner.

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    If there are two parties, and one says it’s raining, and the other says it isn’t, it’s not the news media’s job to give an unbiased report on the debate, it’s their job to look out the fucking window and say whether or not it’s raining.

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    Smells like an anti-editorial absolutist. Wow so objective. Much truth.

    Wtf is wrong with being biased against out and proud fascists.

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    “Dave Limp, the chief executive of one of my companies, Blue Origin, met with former president Donald Trump on the day of our announcement,” Bezos wrote. “I sighed when I found out, because I knew it would provide ammunition to those who would like to frame this as anything other than a principled decision. But the fact is, I didn’t know about the meeting beforehand. Even Limp didn’t know about it in advance; the meeting was scheduled quickly that morning. There is no connection between it and our decision on presidential endorsements, and any suggestion otherwise is false.”

    “Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, ‘I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.’ None. 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,” Bezos wrote

    “Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?”

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    how exactly is it that any kind of endorsement creates a “perception of bias”? is he trying to argue that all opinions are biased? and if so, why doesn’t he say anything to support that claim?

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    presidential endorsements create the “perception of bias”

    You know what else creates a perception of bias? Meeting with Trump right before withholding the Harris endorsement.

    Also… bullshit… it’s amazing how many people just get their marching instructions from their preferred newspaper. They don’t even pay attention. They will literally tell canvassers that they will decide who they are voting for based on what the paper says.

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      The Washington Post already carries a perception of bias for the Republican party, a Harris endorsement would have potentially balanced that somewhat.

      This statement doesn’t even stand up to the flimsiest scrutiny

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      They don’t even pay attention. They will literally tell canvassers that they will decide who they are voting for based on what the paper says.

      I had a conversation with my dad recently about it. he’s been a life long republican. In any case I had to remind him that I told him in 2016 that Trump was quoting hitler almost-verbatim. The only difference was that a) it was a more or less direct translation into english, and b) ‘jews’ were exchanged for ‘muslims’.

      he also kept demanding sources and I’m like ‘the source is trump speaking. trump said that himself. this is a direct quote’. (for example the ‘Dictator on day one’ comment.) same goes for political violence. same goes for everything in the 2025;

      like fucking hell, it’s exhausting. I tossed in the source on Fox being a right-wing propaganda rag for good measure.

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        When a conservative asks you for sources, they do so in bad faith. They don’t care about engaging with reality. It’s a deflection tactic.

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          Yup. That’s exactly why he’s voting for Harris this time around. All those bad faith arguments.

          No, but it took a while to get him off Fox News. He didn’t vote in the 2020 presidential election either (or maybe he voted for some other republican jackass. I forget.)

          He grew up thoroughly republican. It’s taken a while to break the brainwashing, but it can be done.

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    So didn’t the crucial reporting of Woodward and Bernstein exposing the Watergate scandal on the pages of the Washington Post show bias against Nixon, Jeff? Would you have stopped that reporting had you owned the paper in 1972?

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    Now more than ever the world needs a credible, trusted, independent voice…

    I’m not sure he understands the meaning of “independent”.