Writers at L.A. Times & WaPo Resign After Billionaire Owners Block Kamala Harris Endorsements

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The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post announced that they would not be endorsing anyone in the U.S. presidential election this year, breaking decades of precedent and overriding planned endorsements of Kamala Harris. The decisions were ordered by the outlets' multibillionaire owners, Patrick Soon-Shiong and Jeff Bezos. We speak with the Los Angeles Times editorials editor Mariel Garza, who quit when the paper killed the endorsement of Harris, and veteran Washington Post reporter David Hoffman, who stepped down from the paper's editorial board in response. "We are right on the doorstep of the most consequential election in our lifetimes. To pull the plug on the endorsement, to go silent against Trump days before the election, that to me was just unconscionable," says Hoffman. "This is not a time in American history when anyone can remain silent or neutral," adds Garza.

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1. Journo rage

Journalists: We are objective. We are without bias. We are nonpartisan.
Also journalists: We demand our right to tell customers how to vote.

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2. The literal job of an Editorial is to give opinion

based on information that said publication has covered over time from days to years, that's their field of expertise.

It's the same as if you're purchasing a house and a paid for professional home inspector refuses to give a report on the condition of the property from the crawl space to attic, only much more serious because the Presidency affects the entire nation, not to mention the world.

News coverage; in itself should be objective, but no living human is perfectly objective, we all have our bias.

That's the danger of a heavily conglomerated or monopolized media, with just a handful of extremely wealthy owners; their personal and financial interests increasingly diverge from that of the people or nation.

They come to fear the 1st Amendment and want to control it.

That's why Elon Musk; born and raised in apartheid South Africa carrying his emotional baggage from that era bought Twitter, he wanted to control the dialogue.

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