Similar happenings at the Los Angeles Times, as the article mentions:
The announcement came days after Mariel Garza, the head of The Los Angeles Times’s editorial board, resigned in protest after that paper’s owner Patrick Soon-Shiong decided against running a presidential endorsement.
My paranoia says that this is a deliberate "leak" to show Kamala is the enemy of the barons, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so this is actually intended to mobilize voters for Kamala
Victor Manuel Rocha, a US diplomat who spied for Cuba, pulled a similar maneuver
Rocha's off-the-cuff remark weeks before the 2002 Bolivian general election threatening to cut American aid to Bolivia over Evo Morales's support for the coca-growers movement has been credited with boosting Morales's Movement for Socialism party in the 2002 Bolivian general election — after that, Morales called Rocha his best "campaign manager"
For me what makes it funny is that if you are the type of dweeb that makes it to the wapo ed board presidential endorsements are probably the most important thing you can do in your mind, so bezos killing it is just
if it weren't for the absolutely zealous support of genocide I'd almost be tempted to voot bloo just on the off chance some of this antitrust shit goes through
Except I don't live in a swing state so my vote means precisely diddly