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Watergate reporters Woodward and Bernstein calls Washington Post decision to not endorse Kamala Harris ‘disappointing’
New York Post ^ | Oct. 26, 2024 | Jon Levine

Posted on 10/26/2024 4:57:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Famed Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein blasted Jeff Bezos’ decision to keep the Washington Post neutral in the 2024 presidential race by declining to endorse Kamala Harris for president.

“We respect the traditional independence of the editorial page, but this decision 11 days out from the 2024 presidential election ignores the Washington Post’s own overwhelming reportorial evidence on the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy,” the pair said in a statement published by CNN Friday.

“Under Jeff Bezos’s ownership, the Washington Post’s news operation has used its abundant resources to rigorously investigate the danger and damage a second Trump presidency could cause to the future of American democracy and that makes this decision even more surprising and disappointing, especially this late in the electoral process.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: bernstein; bezos; bobwoodward; carlbernstein; harris; journalism; kamala; kamalaharris; poeticjustice; schadenfreude; tds; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost; woodward; woodworm
Aren't reporters supposed to be impartial?
1 posted on 10/26/2024 4:57:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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>> Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

Two partisan scumbags


2 posted on 10/26/2024 5:05:10 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: nickcarraway

Translation: surprise, surprise, we were leftist demonrat sycophants all along. Why did it take all of you so to figure that out?


3 posted on 10/26/2024 5:05:47 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: nickcarraway
Famed Watergate reporters...
4 posted on 10/26/2024 5:10:54 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: nickcarraway
> “We respect the traditional independence of the editorial page…” <

Sure they do. Woodward and Bernstein are swell guys. They are all for independent thinking and different points of view. Just as long as it aligns perfectly with their leftist beliefs.

Otherwise, they will cry like little babies.


5 posted on 10/26/2024 5:14:54 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: nickcarraway

They respect the deep-throat.


6 posted on 10/26/2024 5:19:57 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: nickcarraway

Anus gas from the past.


7 posted on 10/26/2024 5:22:02 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: nickcarraway

calls Washington Post decision to not endorse Kamala Harris ‘disappointing’

‘disappointing’ to anybody who supports democrats


8 posted on 10/26/2024 5:22:56 PM PDT by tsowellfan (Let's make it too BIG to rig)
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To: nickcarraway

"Ehhhh, just one question, Chief. How does lower inflation, lower unemployment, lower gas prices, energy independence and being a net exporter of oil pose a threat to democracy?"
9 posted on 10/26/2024 5:45:36 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: nickcarraway

VERY DISAPPOINTING THAT ALL NEWS ORGANIZATIONS DO NOT JUST APPROVE ALL DEMOCRATS FOR ALL POSITIONS.

VOTE DEMOCRATS OUT.


10 posted on 10/26/2024 5:46:02 PM PDT by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock-)
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To: Pearfect

Does it make any difference if a newspaper endorses a candidate? Left-wing rags like the Washington Post in the LA paper will still have hit pieces against the Republican over and over again. The editorials and op-ed pieces will slam Trump and be as dishonest as ever.


11 posted on 10/26/2024 5:51:10 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: nickcarraway

“ Aren’t reporters supposed to be impartial?”

This is definitely proving that facade a scam. They’ve given up the play.


12 posted on 10/26/2024 5:54:59 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Gene Eric

Bernstein is still alive? Did he have a liver transplant? Haven’t heard much from him since he stole a carriage outside of the Plaza and abused the horses by racing them through Central Park. Apparently a bit of alcohol was involved.


13 posted on 10/26/2024 5:59:53 PM PDT by ladyjane
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I hadn’t heard of that escapade. I guess he took horse dewormer.


14 posted on 10/26/2024 6:40:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

The Pickle Factory must have a crappy pension plan if these two old crows are still working.


15 posted on 10/26/2024 6:43:50 PM PDT by dznutz
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To: nickcarraway

These two were the left’s celebrity investigative journalists, until Bill Clinton.
Suddenly they were passive observers of the most corrupt and disgusting president in US history.

Clinton’s crimes were a thousand times worse than Watergate, and not a word from either one.

Typical liberals; ignorant, bigoted, half-educated pseudo intellectuals masquerading as patriots and hiding their misbegotten hatred of America.

One word describes them both.

Douchebags.


16 posted on 10/26/2024 6:49:24 PM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: nickcarraway

They’re still alive?


17 posted on 10/26/2024 7:52:51 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: nickcarraway

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos in an op-ed published Monday evening defended the newspaper’s recent controversial decision not to endorse a candidate in the presidential election as a “meaningful step in the right direction” to reverse the loss of trust in the media by Americans.

But Bezos also wrote, “I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it.”

The op-ed — with the headline “The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media — was published hours after NPR reported that The Washington Post had lost more than 200,000 digital subscribers since Friday’s announcement by CEO Will Lewis that the newspaper would no longer endorse presidential candidates.

Three members of the paper’s editorial board have resigned from that panel, while retaining their staff roles at the Post, because of that decision.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168416/washington-post-bezos-endorsement-president-cancellations-resignations


18 posted on 10/28/2024 5:07:33 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of so-called experts! America has the most useless aristocrats in history!)
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To: nickcarraway

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos in an op-ed published Monday evening defended the newspaper’s recent controversial decision not to endorse a candidate in the presidential election as a “meaningful step in the right direction” to reverse the loss of trust in the media by Americans.

But Bezos also wrote, “I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it.”

The op-ed — with the headline “The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media — was published hours after NPR reported that The Washington Post had lost more than 200,000 digital subscribers since Friday’s announcement by CEO Will Lewis that the newspaper would no longer endorse presidential candidates.

Three members of the paper’s editorial board have resigned from that panel, while retaining their staff roles at the Post, because of that decision.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168416/washington-post-bezos-endorsement-president-cancellations-resignations


19 posted on 10/28/2024 5:07:46 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of so-called experts! America has the most useless aristocrats in history!)
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