Update: Gaza related. LATimes owner stops Harris endorsement

[sonrisa]

www.sfgate.com/politics/article/la-times-presidential-endorsement-2024-19854770.php


www.semafor.com/article/10/22/2024/los-angeles-times-wont-endorse-for-president

the SF Gate article says: "the board originally planned to extend its four-election streak of backing Democratic presidential candidates." They are making other endorsements for candidates and ballot measures, just not the presidency.

[stuffandthings]

I bet it's because he's afraid Trump will go after media outlets that didn't endorse him if he wins.

[ellipses84]

It’s ridiculous to not support Harris now when you’ve supported Biden and Clinton in the past and seen the horrendous track record of the opposing candidate. I’m betting the reason is Silicon Valley money.

[picksthemusic]

Yeah they're under duress from someone.

[neverfstop]

Hmmm..WaPo declined to endorse just now too....breaking decades of tradition & CNN just put them on email blast about it...

[lust2hart]

The LA Times Editorials editor resigned yesterday: apnews.com/article/los-angeles-times-editor-resigns-9199fa590f1fd7e850de31310a86770b

[basilosaurus]

Oct 25, 2024 11:50:26 GMT -5 lust2hart said:

The LA Times Editorials editor resigned yesterday: apnews.com/article/los-angeles-times-editor-resigns-9199fa590f1fd7e850de31310a86770b

Multiple editors have now resigned

[sonrisa]

The owner’s daughter says it was because of Gaza.

nypost.com/2024/10/26/us-news/la-times-owner-blocked-kamala-endorsement-to-protest-gaza-war/

I want to know who believes things will be better in Gaza under Trump.

If this were a natural threat rather than a political threat, people wouldn’t do this. You don’t stand beside the gas station supply tank during a wildfire fire.

[fortnightlily]

Oct 27, 2024 4:37:38 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

The owner’s daughter says it was because of Gaza.

nypost.com/2024/10/26/us-news/la-times-owner-blocked-kamala-endorsement-to-protest-gaza-war/

I want to know who believes things will be better in Gaza under Trump.

If this were a natural threat rather than a political threat, people wouldn’t do this. You don’t stand beside the gas station supply tank during a wildfire fire.

I don't buy it, because if the paper really wanted to make the lack of endorsement as a stand/statement on Gaza, why not publish an editorial saying so?

[sonrisa]

Oct 27, 2024 13:41:34 GMT -5 fortnightlily said:

Oct 27, 2024 4:37:38 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

The owner’s daughter says it was because of Gaza.

nypost.com/2024/10/26/us-news/la-times-owner-blocked-kamala-endorsement-to-protest-gaza-war/

I want to know who believes things will be better in Gaza under Trump.

If this were a natural threat rather than a political threat, people wouldn’t do this. You don’t stand beside the gas station supply tank during a wildfire fire.

I don't buy it, because if the paper really wanted to make the lack of endorsement as a stand/statement on Gaza, why not publish an editorial saying so?

The owner's daughter is an activist. She claims her family decided the paper should not endorse anyone because of Gaza - and that is why her father stopped the Harris endorsement.

It is still the billionaire owner interfering with journalistic independence and stopping the editorial board from making the Harris endorsement they had planned to make. There is just a different motivation than people here speculated.

[basilosaurus]

Oct 27, 2024 13:41:34 GMT -5 fortnightlily said:

Oct 27, 2024 4:37:38 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

The owner’s daughter says it was because of Gaza.

nypost.com/2024/10/26/us-news/la-times-owner-blocked-kamala-endorsement-to-protest-gaza-war/

I want to know who believes things will be better in Gaza under Trump.

If this were a natural threat rather than a political threat, people wouldn’t do this. You don’t stand beside the gas station supply tank during a wildfire fire.

I don't buy it, because if the paper really wanted to make the lack of endorsement as a stand/statement on Gaza, why not publish an editorial saying so?

I don't read la times religiously. How much print space have they dedicated to condemning Israel's attacks on Gaza? Have they called it out for the genocide that it is? If the answers are not much and no, then I also don't buy it