Fear of Trump pushed Bezos to gut Washington Post, says fmr. executive editor

AND WHILE TODAY'S CUTS AT THE POST HAVE BEEN PORTRAYED AS A DECISION TO ADDRESS DECLINING READERSHIP, IT WAS DECISIONS MADE BY BEZOS IN his leadership team that helped put the paper on that path. I mean, after Jeff Bezos decided to cancel the Washington Post editorial board's tradition of endorsing presidential candidates, a quarter of a million readers canceled their subscriptions, that is a lot, despite that reaction from readers, Bezos and his leadership team continued their apparent effort to appease Tr ...