>But that's not what happened here. The editors did their normal endorsement process, but the owner of the paper stepped in and personally overrode their process for this one particular endorsement. That's a way different story from deciding to stop doing endorsements.

But it's also normal and expected for a) the editors/editorial board (not the same thing) to disagree at times with the publisher/owner, and b) the editorial board's public face to reflect the publisher/owner's view regardless.

If the editors wanted to endorse Trump but Bezos stepped in and decided that the paper would endorse Harris, or give no endorsement, the mechanism would be the same even if the outcome itself isn't. (What would also be different is endless acres of resulting news coverage praising Bezos for bravely stopping the Post's editorial board's NaziFascistKKK wrongthink, of course.)