https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/ Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility. Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right. By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but it’s a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy. --- 左左真的可悲 整天想綁架公司機器公器私用 搞到老闆都出來開砲 不過本來以為貝佐斯是慣老闆代表人物 沒想到他居然還先給警告而已 比起一出手就開除80%推特人力的馬斯克真的nice太多了 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 184.191.81.15 (美國) ※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/HatePolitics/M.1730215725.A.5C4.html