A mother’s love is more fickle than we thought.

A distraught Washington Post reporter I went to X on Saturday to reveal that his own mother had canceled her subscription to the newspaper for Protest owner Jeff Bezos’ decision not to support Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

“My mother just told me she canceled her Washington Post subscription. She reads every one of my stories. It was a heartbreaking call,” said Caroline Kitchener, who covers abortion issues for the paper.

“I understand why she did that,” the writer continued. “Post journalists played no role in this decision. But when you cancel, you’re hurting us, not our landlord…

“I completely understand if you have lost faith in our owner, but please don’t lose faith in us.”

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“The Washington Post reporter on abortion was just rejected by her own mother,” joked conservative commentator Mark Hemingway.

Bezos’ decision – which also applies to “any future presidential election”, according to publisher Will Lewis – follows the Los Angeles Times, whose billionaire owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, also refused to give his endorsement, which led to a flood of resignations of its editorial board.

Bezos’ decision also provoked a public tantrum from top editors and writers at The Washington Post.

“I did not sign up as a journalist to remain silent on what matters most. I didn’t come here to be a coward. Some of us truly believe in speaking truth to power. We were betrayed today,” Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah. wrote on Friday.

A WashPo editor, Robert Kagan, has already resigned because of this decision, while 2,000 readers canceled their subscriptions within 24 hours, which one staffer said was “an unusually high number”. Semafor reported.

However, a source familiar with the figures dismissed the cancellations, telling the outlet that they are “not statistically significant.”