A COWARDLY CAVE BY THE WASHINGTON POST

      “To journalists of today, I would suggest, as both a friend and former colleague, that in this year especially evenhandedness enables evil.”

      That’s how I ended a column I wrote on Sept. 17th decrying the free ride Donald Trump got from a lazy press through much of his presidency—and especially after his attempt to whitewash his traitorous behavior fomenting the January 6th insurrection to illegally overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

      I wrote that piece in my online column ‘Talking Photography,’ -–the same photography column that I once proudly wrote for the Washington Post (1992-2011.)

      Any respect or affection I had for the Post as an institution vanished today after owner Jeff Bezos—a billionaire who loves money more than journalistic integrity—ordered his editorial staff to kill a proposed endorsement of Democrat Kamala Harris—a move that sparked outrage in the Post’s newsroom.

      Instead, the paper lifted a figurative fig leaf over its shriveled genitals, saying it would remain neutral in this, the most important presidential election since the Civil War.

      Noted Pulitzer Prize-winning former Post editor Marty Baron, who was hired shortly before Bezos purchased the newspaper in 2013: “This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty.” Baron added that Trump would see the Post’s neutrality as a de facto endorsement and an invitation to further intimidate wealthy media moguls like Bezos, whose business empires include big government contracts.

      Jeff Bezos, Baron declared, had displayed “disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.”

      It probably goes without saying that I just have canceled my subscription to the Washington Post.

      Shame on you, Bezos—and with all due respect, get the fuck out of town.