Newspaper endorsements don’t impact elections but reinforce the sense of bias, the owner of the Post said The Washington Post has abandoned its decades-long tradition of endorsing a US presidential candidate to earn back the trust of the American public, the newspaper’s owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos, has said. He explained his reasoning in an op-ed published by the Post on Monday after facing intense backlash from current and former staff.  The newspaper has been endorsing candidates since 1976,