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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Washington Post writers say don’t dump subscriptions over non-endorsement

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The Washington Post office in Washington DC on 27 June 2024. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

The furore over the Washington Post’s decision to forgo a presidential endorsement continued on Monday, with writers for the newspaper pleading with subscribers not to cancel as it would only hurt journalists who did not make the call.

The newspaper owned by the multibillionaire Jeff Bezos was thrown into a pre-election inferno on Friday when it announced that it would abandon a five-decade convention of making a formal presidential endorsement.

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