L.A. Times Editorial Chief Quits After Owner Blocks Harris Endorsement

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The head of The Los Angeles Times’s editorial board resigned on Wednesday after the paper’s owner quashed a presidential endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris.

In an interview with Columbia Journalism Review, Mariel Garza, who held the title editorials editor, said she had quit because “I want to make it clear that I am not OK with us being silent. In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up.”

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L.A. Times Editorial Chief Quits After Owner Blocks Harris Endorsement

Mariel Garza said the editorial board was prepared to endorse Kamala Harris, but the paper’s owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, decided not to make an endorsement in the presidential race.
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Nariel Garza, the editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times, resigned on Wednesday after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

“I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent,” Garza told me in a phone conversation. “In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up.”

On October 11, Patrick Soon-Shiong, who bought the newspaper for $500 million in 2018, informed the paper’s editorial board that the Times would not be making an endorsement for president. The message was conveyed to Garza by Terry Tang, the paper’s editor.

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Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement

Mariel Garza, the editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times, resigned on Wednesday after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president. “I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent,”...
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Another reason it matters who owns a media company.
 
“But two things concern me: This is a point in time where you speak your conscience no matter what. And an endorsement was the logical next step after a series of editorials we’ve been writing about how dangerous Trump is to democracy, about his unfitness to be president, about his threats to jail his enemies. We have made the case in editorial after editorial that he shouldn’t be reelected.”
 
Hume said:
The head of The Los Angeles Times’s editorial board resigned on Wednesday after the paper’s owner quashed a presidential endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris.

In an interview with Columbia Journalism Review, Mariel Garza, who held the title editorials editor, said she had quit because “I want to make it clear that I am not OK with us being silent. In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up.”

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L.A. Times Editorial Chief Quits After Owner Blocks Harris Endorsement

Mariel Garza said the editorial board was prepared to endorse Kamala Harris, but the paper’s owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, decided not to make an endorsement in the presidential race.
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Good riddance. :laugh:
 
Why did he not do it this year

He did it since he bought the paper in 2018


In the past he met with trump two times to beg for a certain position
 
evince said:
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Patrick Soon-Shiong - Wikipedia

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In October 2024, Semafor reported that Soon-Shiong blocked the Los Angeles Times from endorsing Kamala Harris in the 2024 United States presidential election, breaking a chain of presidential endorsements since the 2008 election. The move prompted Mariel Garza, the
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Soon-Shiong twice privately met with Donald Trump during his presidential transition to unsuccessfully try and get a position in the administration
 
evince said:
Soon-Shiong twice privately met with Donald Trump during his presidential transition to unsuccessfully try and get a position in the administration
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He is a smart man. Endorsing Harris will piss Trump supporters off. And endorsing Trump will piss Harris supporters off. If the paper sits this one out it offends fewer readers and Harris is going to lose anyway. And Trump is going to lose California no matter if the LA Times endorses Harris or not.
 
ExpressLane said:
He is a smart man. Endorsing Harris will piss Trump supporters off. And endorsing Trump will piss Harris supporters off. If the paper sits this one out it offends fewer readers and Harris is going to lose anyway. And Trump is going to lose California no matter if the LA Times endorses Harris or not.
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LA TIMES?

Their readership is Democratic overwhelmingly idiot
 
these partisan rags have lost all their political capital

It's like when a spy has been exposed, but keeps on trying to spy

sorry. no. you have to go away, and a new spy comes in pretending to be something else.
 
zymurgy said:
these partisan rags have lost all their political capital

It's like when a spy has been exposed, but keeps on trying to spy

sorry. no. you have to go away, and a new spy comes in pretending to be something else.
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derp derp
 
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