Bezos wrote his own op-ed explaining the decision, and he (not inaccurately) pointed out that opinion pieces like presidential endorsements can call newpaper's credibility into question, and also have very little effect on the actual election. He's not wrong, and if his stance is "Hey, we're ending newspaper endorsements in general because they don't work and make us look biased", then I could get behind that. But if that's the case, it shouldn't be framed as some sort of historic rebuke of Harris. It has nothing to do with her if you take him at his word.
It's also worth pointing out that Trump met with Blue Origin execs on the day of the announcement of the non-endorsement, and he could have made a deal. The timing of a "principled" decision like that is also suspect. If they announced last year that they weren't going to do an endorsement for all the reasons he mentions, this would have been less of a big deal. To wait until the op-ed was ready to print and then swoop in and pull it raises a lot of questions about the true intent here.
But maybe he means what he says. Or maybe this is a savvy business move somehow for Blue Origin. Or maybe Huffy is right and there were some strong-willed editors that he pulled a power play on just to try and get rid of them and cut payroll. *shrug*
My only real point is that I don't think this move, whatever the motive, actually has much of anything to do with Harris.
