But Bezos also wrote, “I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it.”
The op-ed — with the headline “The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media — was published hours after NPR reported that The Washington Post had lost more than 200,000 digital subscribers since Friday’s announcement by CEO Will Lewis that the newspaper would no longer endorse presidential candidates. Three members of the paper’s editorial board have resigned from that panel, while retaining their staff roles at the Post, because of that decision.