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The Washington Post's chief executive told the newsroom on Friday that it will not support a presidential candidate, breaking with a long time of precedent on the newspaper.
“The Washington Post will not endorse a presidential candidate in this election,” wrote Will Lewis, the Post’s executive director. “Not even in future presidential elections. We are returning to our roots of opposing presidential candidates.”
The Post has supported presidential candidates since 1976, Lewis wrote, when it gave its stamp of approval to Jimmy Carter, who later won the election. Before that, there was generally no support for the president, although there was an exception in 1952 to support Dwight Eisenhower.
The move follows ongoing unrest on the Los Angeles Times, where the editor-in-chief and two of his writers resigned this week in protest over the choice by the Times' billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong to dam a planned presidential endorsement.
The post office is owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.
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