Washington Post Columnist Michele Norris Resigns Over Bezos Scrapping Harris Endorsement and this is just the beginning, ‘A Terrible Mistake’ Michele L. Norris is a great well known journalist. Since 2019, Norris has been an opinion columnist with The Washington Post. She co-hosted National Public Radio’s evening news program All Things Considered from 2002 to 2011 and was the first African-American female host for NPR.
The big news, as of yesterday she posted, “I have decided to resign from my role as a columnist for The Washington Post — a newspaper that I love. In a moment like this, everyone needs to make their own decisions. This is the reasonfor mine.”
Saturday, legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein called out the paper’s owner Jeff Bezos for the decision to quash the planned endorsement of Kamala Harris.
“We respect the traditional independence of the editorial page, but this decision 11 days out from the 2024 presidential election ignores the Washington Post’s own overwhelming reportorial evidence on the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy,” the duo said in a joint statement posted on social media.
“Under Jeff Bezos’ ownership, the Washington Post’s news operation has used its abundant resources to rigorously investigate the danger and damage a second Trump presidency could cause to the future of American democracy,” the statement continues. “And that makes this decision even more surprising and disappointing, especially this late in the electoral process.”