Posted on 10/25/2024 9:36:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
At a ceremony Thursday night in New York City, two of our Post Opinions colleagues received their Pulitzer Prizes for their courageous and tenacious work spotlighting the dangers of authoritarianism.
Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, a contributor to our pages, won the commentary award for what the Pulitzer board said were “passionate columns written under great personal risk from his prison cell, warning of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and insisting on a democratic future for his country.”
Veteran foreign correspondent David Hoffman, a member of our editorial board, was recognized for a series of editorials spotlighting the digital-age means by which tyrants squelch those who would stand up to them.
This is the best of what we do, made all the more important at a time in our own country when a major-party presidential candidate, using language that we associate with dictators, is promising to take America in a direction that even those who have worked with him equate with fascism.
So it came as a shock when our own newspaper’s leadership announced the following day that, for the first time in 36 years, The Post would not make an endorsement in the presidential race.
The rationale cited in our leaders’ statement was an insult to our colleagues throughout this newspaper and to our readers. This, they claimed, was a return to “our roots” of a half-century and more ago as a publication that eschewed presidential endorsements. It was a sign of our “independence.”
Editorial boards exist to make judgments and to speak for the institution. If this change in policy regarding presidential endorsements was a stand on some long-ignored principle of our past, why did the newspaper wait until just 11 days before the election to announce...
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Karen would like to speak to the manager.
The navel-gazing here is ridiculous.
I wish some rich dude, just once, had the balls to purchase a publication like the WP or NYT and then just close it down permanently.
The Post wounded itself plenty of times by endorsing a candidate.
Bezos would save money by shutting it down, don’t know WHY he doesn’t do it!!
My thinking, exactly. Management should fire them. They would be easy to replace.
Megyn Kelly pointed out that,faced with ‘actual Hitler’, the Post chose not to endorse Kamala. 😂😂😂
Had to post that on Gab/Truth/X - did it like this:
From a FReeper:
“President Trump put zero political opponents in prison during his four years in office.
The FJB/Harris regime put thousands of political opponents in prison during their 3.75 years in office.
Any questions?”
Since Jennifer Rubin was so vocal in insisting that ALL of the LA Times writers should resign in protest over their non-endorsement, isn’t it time that Jenny steps up to the plate and steps down as well over her own paper’s non-endorsement?
Post knows this, so no endorsement means they are supporting Trump.
A “sin of omission”! Someone schedule a Struggle Session!
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
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