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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The FJB/Harris regime put thousands of political opponents in prison during their 3.75 years in office.
Any questions?
Yes. Are a majority of the people finally catching on?
I think so.
We’ll KNOW the answer in 10 days from today. I hope.
LA Times did the same thing … we live in interesting times …
Seems like these writers are trying to go around the lack of an official endorsement by the WP and present one in a not-so-subtle way. Maybe management will start firing people.
President Trump is the gift that keeps on giving.
These scum have been in the tank for the Democrat Party for DECADES.
Very.
So do I.
That’s right.
I love it when the Left eats their own.
Especially when the Left self cannibalizes itself in this manner.
They foisted a demented president on us, then kicked him to the curb and chose the cackling empty-head Harris. It’s all their fault.
Writing is on the wall!!!
It’s so glorious, I know.
Kunta Kumabla democratically won how many Demonrat primaries? At the Demonrat witches convention, how many democratic options were on the ballot?
Bezos should compromise and offer the hysterical bozo bullies an editorial print of 3 words. That would be: Shoot Hitler! Shoot!
In the spirit of Newsweek's bankruptcy sale, Musk could offer to buy the Washington Post, for one dollar. He can afford it, and can blast the deep state cremation remains into deep space.
Sounds like Karen is retiring….
The real reason that they did not endorse is the same reason that Kamala won’t do more interviews. They’re dammned if they do and damned if they dont.
let’s see: WaPo and LAT published thousands, zillions, of daily TDS-infected “news” stories over the years, passing such off as “journalism”...and they pass on one endorsement so we’ll think they’re “impartial” now. lol...
Twitter/X is now the largest disseminator of news so don’t think Musk needs to waste even one $ on WaPo.
Poor lamb. She has the sads. I agree she should resign in protest
Lighten up, Karen. Geez. It’s not the end of the world.
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