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Keller: Newspaper Endorsements Of Presidential Candidates Just Don't Matter
"Corporate leaders don't want to be at odds with a president who does threaten them," said Robert Kagan, a former Post editor-at-large.
Updated on: October 30, 2024 / 5:52 AM EDT
BOSTON - The Washington Post is paying the price for not endorsing a presidential candidate.
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Staff members are quitting, and tens of thousands of people are canceling their subscriptions after the newspaper's leadership declined to publish an endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris reportedly prepared by its editorial-page editors.
"Corporate leaders want to make sure that they're not at odds with a president who does threaten them if they behave badly," Robert Kagan, a Post editor-at-large who resigned over the decision, told CNN.
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