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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Washington Post cartoon team skewers paper’s decision not to make endorsement

Billionaire owner Jeff Besos adopted the paper’s slogan, ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’.
Billionaire owner Jeff Besos adopted the paper’s slogan, ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’. Photograph: Candice Tang/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

The Washington Post’s cartoon team has taken a measure of revenge on the newspaper’s decision to avoid making a formal presidential endorsement with a dark formless image clearly designed to skewer the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” slogan that the outlet adopted during billionaire Jeff Bezos’s ownership.

The image was published hours after it was revealed that Bezos, who has owned the paper since 2012, had pulled the plug on a prepared endorsement of Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in the 5 November election.

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