Posted on 10/26/2024 11:12:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
When President Trump branded these propaganda outfits the enemy of the people, he was right.
A few days ago, the Los Angeles Times was in focus when the paper's proprietor, Patrick Soon-Shiong, prevented the paper’s editorial board from endorsing Kamala Harris for president.
The L.A. Times is still the largest paper in California and one of the largest in the U.S.
The paper exclusively endorsed Republican presidential nominees from its founding in 1881 through 1972 when Richard Nixon ran for re-election in 1972. The paper's pubhlisher, surfin' Otis Chandler, scion of the wealthy Chandler family, was said to have regretted making that endorsement as the Nixon administration went down in the Watergate scandal.
After that, the paper didn't endorse any presidential nominee.
However, in 2008, the paper endorsed Barack Obama, subsequently, it endorsed Democratic presidential nominees exclusively.
This non-endorsement caused outrage among members of the Times' editorial board.
One such member is Mariel Garza, who resigned from the paper in protest. Garza spoke to the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) about her decision and even shared her resignation letter.
Garza was quick to claim victimhood in her interview with CJR.
“I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent” Garza claimed.
Garza then confirmed what we all know about the mainstream media. They no longer care to be factual instead are blatantly partisan and ideological.
“I didn’t think we were going to change our readers’ minds—our readers, for the most part, are Harris supporters”
“We’re a very liberal paper. I didn’t think we were going to change the outcome of the election in California."
"...an endorsement was the logical next step after a series of editorials we’ve been writing about how dangerous Trump is to democracy,...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“These newspapers are de facto political contributions to the Democratic Party.”
The entire old media AKA MSM is an in-kind contribution to the Democrat Party and their fellow Marxist/Stalinist travelers.
Considering that both the L.A. Times and the Washington Post have been cost cutting it seems that the ROI ain’t what it used to be. I fail to see how a collapse in consumption from the 30 to 40% inflation tax is of any benefit to Bezos.
That’s why I said *allegedly*.
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