Can They Swing The Elections?

Would a pre-election editorial endorsement by The Washington Post newspaper have made Kamala Harris victorious for the US presidency? Post’s owner Jeff Bezos instantly argued, in an op-ed piece, that the practice of extending endorsement has been done away with because chances of voters changing their mind on the basis of what they’ve read in the paper they subscribe to was minimal. He contended that the decision was taken “to safeguard independent reporting.” That might very well be so. But not all of the Post readers were convinced as no fewer than two hundred thousand digital subscribers cancelled their subscriptions within 48 hours.