Patrick Soon-Shiong
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I bet she will still get that regular paycheck managing some Get Trump portion of the so-called paper.
The LA Times is not even in Los Angeles anymore but published out of next door Riverside County. The taxes must be lower then the ones the paper always is for raising.
In other words lots of bloggers have more clout than the LA Times.
And of course they won’t endorse DJT. Will they endorse Jill Stein...or will they endorse nobody?
Very probably. But she’s guaranteed a $10 million book deal because of her “bravery”.
Truth be told, she’s got integrity at least. She put her money where her mouth is, and quit. Better than all these folks saying they are leaving the US, but never do.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Although that's all the leftist activist media employs, the employment numbers are dwindling do to decreasing demand for propaganda.
A double win for the Los Angeles Times even John Wayne would give that a hat tip.
OWNER should get RID OF THE COMPLETE EDITORIAL BOARD, EVERYONE !!!!
Por little Garza.
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