My essay closed with a welcome to @krmaher “I'll be rooting for her." But then I was suspended & Katherine Maher posted a statement on the NPR.org website calling my words: “profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.” It’s still there.
A year from now we'll vaguely remember the day journalists lost their minds and declared the arrival of fascism because a couple of newspapers didn't endorse a candidate.
About the 200,000 cancelled Washington Post subscriptions, You can say it’s shows the level of outrage over Bezos and the decision not to endorse Harris. But if the subscribers found meaningful value from the paper they wouldn’t be so quick to bail.
How many have cancelled their Amazon prime memberships? It’s a sobering moment for journalism when people value package delivery more than a newspaper.
