Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Refusing to endorse a candidate, The Post wounds itself
The Washington Post ^ | October 25, 2024 at 7:56 p.m. EDT | Karen Tumulty

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: 2024election; districtofcolumbia; harris; jeffbezos; karentumulty; mediawingofthednc; notendorsing; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; trump; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-34 next last
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?

1 posted on 10/25/2024 9:36:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


2 posted on 10/25/2024 9:38:38 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

LA Times did the same thing … we live in interesting times …


3 posted on 10/25/2024 9:40:25 PM PDT by 11th_VA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


4 posted on 10/25/2024 9:45:05 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
Karen Tumulty - another "jernalist" who orally serviced Rapin' Bill Clinton with her "news" pieces during the impeachment wars.

President Trump is the gift that keeps on giving.

These scum have been in the tank for the Democrat Party for DECADES.

5 posted on 10/25/2024 9:46:23 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 11th_VA

Very.


6 posted on 10/25/2024 9:57:05 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: dp0622

So do I.


7 posted on 10/25/2024 9:57:34 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
Trump's Kamala's fault.
8 posted on 10/25/2024 9:58:45 PM PDT by McGruff (Ask everyone, Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: McGruff

That’s right.


9 posted on 10/25/2024 9:59:34 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

I love it when the Left eats their own.

Especially when the Left self cannibalizes itself in this manner.


10 posted on 10/25/2024 10:02:31 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

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.


11 posted on 10/25/2024 10:08:08 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Writing is on the wall!!!


12 posted on 10/25/2024 10:12:02 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

It’s so glorious, I know.


13 posted on 10/25/2024 10:35:25 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
insisting on a democratic future

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.

14 posted on 10/25/2024 10:48:34 PM PDT by Reeses
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sounds like Karen is retiring….


15 posted on 10/25/2024 10:50:33 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


16 posted on 10/25/2024 10:53:58 PM PDT by know.your.why
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

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...


17 posted on 10/25/2024 11:10:47 PM PDT by avital2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Reeses

Twitter/X is now the largest disseminator of news so don’t think Musk needs to waste even one $ on WaPo.


18 posted on 10/25/2024 11:15:00 PM PDT by avital2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: DesertRhino

Poor lamb. She has the sads. I agree she should resign in protest


19 posted on 10/25/2024 11:18:27 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Lighten up, Karen. Geez. It’s not the end of the world.


20 posted on 10/25/2024 11:21:40 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Funny how the media handed the ball off to treasonous RINOs to carry Harris across the goal line)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-34 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson