Moral dilemma for Washington Post readers who canceled subscriptions but can't live without Amazon

Washington Post readers boycotting the insubstantial aft proprietor Jeff Bezos refused to marque a statesmanlike endorsement admit they're struggling to springiness up Amazon.  

More than 200,000 WaPo readers - retired of 2.5 cardinal - person truthful acold ended their subscriptions, but immoderate are admitting its harder to springiness up the convenience of Bezos' acold much lucrative online buying behemoth.

Liberal writer Joan Walsh took to X to proudly state her fury implicit the non-endorsement, writing: 'I conscionable canceled my subscription to @washingtonpost. You should too.' 

But asked successful her replies she would cancel her Amazon subscription, Walsh instantly compromised her stance, writing: 'Much harder but considering...' 

X idiosyncratic Liz Callaway shared an representation of her Post subscription cancellation portion adding, ''If I were a amended idiosyncratic I would cancel my Amazon Prime membership, too.' 

Another added: 'I did cancel my longtime WaPo subscription, and I'm sourcing the things I privation from Amazon from different places. It's hard, I'll admit. 

Some Bezos critics argued that they canceled the Post due to the fact that it stopped doing its occupation to inform, portion Amazon is inactive doing what it's expected to.

One X idiosyncratic wrote: 'I didn't cancel Amazon Prime due to the fact that that's inactive a work that delivers connected its promises.' 

The Washington Post said Friday it would not endorse a campaigner for president successful this year’s tightly contested contention and would debar doing truthful successful the future.

The paper's leafage exertion David Shipley had already approved an endorsement of Harris and had reportedly told colleagues that it was being reviewed by the paper's owner Bezos, according to NPR.

The announcement marks the archetypal clip successful 36 years that the left-leaning insubstantial has decided to not marque a statesmanlike endorsement. 

Columnist Robert Kagan, a blimpish Trump critic, resigned from his presumption successful the editorial committee aft the determination emerged. 

In an nonfiction posted connected the beforehand of its website, the Post — reporting connected its ain interior workings — besides quoted unidentified sources wrong the work arsenic saying that an endorsement of Kamala Harris implicit Donald Trump had been written but not published. 

Those sources told the Post reporters that Bezos made the decision.

The Post’s publisher, Will Lewis, wrote successful a file that the determination was really a instrumentality to a contented the insubstantial had years agone of not endorsing candidates. He said it reflected the paper’s religion successful 'our readers' quality to marque up their ain minds.'

The station began endorsing statesmanlike candidates successful 1976 aft it broke the Watergate ungraded and publically backed Democrat Jimmy Carter - 'for understandable reasons astatine the time,' the insubstantial said.

However, it declined to marque an endorsement successful 1988 betwixt George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis.

All of its endorsements since Carter person been Democrats.

The Post’s determination travel the aforesaid week that the Los Angeles Times announced a akin decision, which triggered the resignations of its editorial leafage exertion and 2 different members of the editorial board. 

In that instance, the Times’ owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, insisted helium had not censored the editorial board, which had planned to endorse Harris.

'As an owner, I’m connected the editorial committee and I shared with our editors that possibly this twelvemonth we person a column, a page, 2 pages, if we want, of each the pros and each the cons and fto the readers decide,' Soon-Shiong said successful an interrogation Thursday with Spectrum News. He said helium feared endorsing a campaigner would adhd to the country’s division.

Mariel Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review successful an interrogation that she resigned due to the fact that the Times was remaining soundless connected the contention successful “dangerous times.”

'I americium resigning due to the fact that I privation to marque it wide that I americium not OK with america being silent,' Garza said. 'In unsafe times, honorable radical request to basal up. This is however I’m lasting up.'