If Bezos and Soon-Shiong really want to pursue their belated commitment to traditional journalism, they should read their papers through the eyes of someone who holds diametrically opposed political views. Would that person find the papers’ reporting fair to what he believes are relevant facts? The answer, if the owners are honest, would have to be no. Bezos, Soon-Shiong, and any other magnate hoping to restore media credibility will have to beat back the growing narcissism of their own employees, who believe that they have been called to lead the public away from the path of Trumpian evil and toward the heaven of inclusive equity.  

The hysterical backlash against the two papers’ non-endorsement decisions only confirms that those decisions were correct. For now, however, we can expect a trebling of volume from news and editorial-page writers and editors convinced of their own righteousness and infallibility.