In response to a decision by Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, not to endorse a Presidential candidate, an editorial board member wrote in his resignation: ‘Until Friday, I assumed we would apply the same values and principles to an editorial endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.’

Whatever he intended by that statement, one would think an editor of a major US newspaper would understand that the meaninglessness of a reference to the Washington Post’s values as a reason for endorsing Harris.