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ThyBlackMan.com) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — whom National Public Radio called in December “by far the wealthiest person on the planet” — used a small sliver of his vast fortune in 2013 to buy The Washington Post.
In 2020, this newspaper endorsed
“Mr. Biden’s competence and honor are more important in this cycle than any particular stand on any particular issue,” the Bezos paper said in a Sept. 28 editorial.
Did it have a right to make this endorsement?
The First Amendment says: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” Therefore, the answer is yes.
But under a constitutional amendment Biden is proposing, the question could become: How much, if anything, could the Bezos paper — or any other organization — spend on speech that is for or against a politician?