Posted on 10/23/2024 5:55:43 PM PDT by Libloather
The editorials editor for the Los Angeles Times stepped down Wednesday after the newspaper’s billionaire owner stopped the publication’s expected endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Mariel Garza is leaving her post at the Times because she wants “to make it clear that I am not OK with us being silent” after biotech entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong scrapped the paper’s endorsement for president.
“In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up,” Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review she said.
“This is how I’m standing up.”
Last week, Soon-Shiong told the newspaper’s editorial board through the outlet’s editor that the LA Times would not endorse Harris or former President Donald Trump, which was first reported by Semafor.
A draft of a proposed editorial giving Harris the nod was even written by Garza before it was called off, the Columbia Journalism Review reported.
She told the journalistic-centric outlet she didn’t think the endorsement would change voters’ minds because the LA Times is a “very liberal paper” and most of its readers are Harris supporters.
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Wow! Nice standing, Mariel. Now show us how you walk. That's right, first one foot and then the other. There's the door. You're doing great.
I’ve been to Feasterville numerous times. There used to be a ham radio retail store there, many years ago.
I’m guessing the McDonalds PDJT worked at is on Street Road.
Awesome!!! Now get rid of the rest of the RATS working there.
Are there a lot of jobs for people like this? She may regret this.
Don’t let the door hit ya where the dog shoulda bit ya.
“It is a great day when lefties fall on their sword.”
It’s a paper cut. She’ll be OK.
She should be happy she even had a job. This is what I found in Wikipedia about their circulation and finances.
Circulation: 142,382 Average print circulation, 105,000 Digital (2018)
“The Times’s reported daily circulation in October 2010 was 600,449, down from a peak of 1,225,189 daily and 1,514,096 Sunday in April 1990.”
“In January 2024, the paper underwent its largest percentage reduction in headcount—amounting to a layoff of over 20%, including senior staff editorial positions—in an effort to stem the tide of financial losses and maintain enough cash to be viably operational through the end of the year in a struggle for survival and relevance as a regional newspaper of diminished status.”
See ya.
Maybe she can cook fries at a McDonalds.
(Los Angeles Times editorial boss resigns after billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong scraps Harris endorsement)
EXCELLENT!!! 👍👍👍
Well, bye.
a related story I read ended with the suggestion that the editorial board should be able to thumb their noses at the business owner’s directive, otherwise it wasn’t ‘honest reporting’. Reflecting the current ‘woke’ trend of employees thinking they have the magical right to tell the boss what to do - just as Garza’s resignation implies.
They were cheerleaders for mass illegal immigration into LA for all those years.
The people they so desperately wanted to move in don’t speak or read English, and probably never will.
Thus they destroyed their own business.
>> the newspaper’s billionaire owner stopped the publication’s expected endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris
Never mind the whining editorial page editor bitch bitching.
They buried the lede. It’s not all about the editwit, it’s about the paper’s OWNER STOPPING the endorsement of Kameltoe.
That’s YUGE, y’all.
They did endorse Adam Theshitz for semate and George Soros Gascon for DA, so Kamala must have really turned off that owner big time
ROFL! That used to play regularly here on FR. I haven’t seen it in a while. Thanks for bringing it back!
Bye-bye, principled lefty.
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