What Jeff Bezos should have done

Billionaire newspaper owners should take themselves out of the endorsement equation

In 1972, Bill Attwood, the new publisher of the Long Island newspaper Newsday, decided to break a decades-long tradition and stop endorsing presidential candidates.

If the paper had endorsed a candidate that year, the one closest to its editorial point of view would have been a liberal, the Democrat Sen. George McGovern, rather than the incumbent Presid…