That rotten SOB – except….
Oh, the pearl-clutchingverse or whatever you call all those folks is in tears – two of the most traditionally liberal outlets, the Washington Post and the LA Times, have been ordered not to endorse a Presidential candidate. Ermigawd, it’s like impartiality was a deadly disease! Thankfully, the NY Times, the Grey Lady, the wannabe US version of the London Times, “All the News That Fits We Print” “All the News That’s Fit to Print” saved ’em all by endorsing Kamala and Walz back in September. “The Only Patriotic Choice for President”, no less .NY Times
But at the establishments which declined to endorse (per orders from their CEOs) there is wailing and gnashing of teeth. And funnily enough, a wave of subscription cancellations. These folks WANT the bias.
The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of roughly 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. NPR
The editorial board has mostly only endorsed Democratic candidates in presidential, Senate and congressional elections. Besides an endorsement of Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, the Post has only ever endorsed Democrats for president since 1976. Fox News
Purportedly, at the Post it is all due to its owner, Jeff Bezos.
MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski said former President Trump “forced” the Washington Post editorial board to not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in the race during an interview on ABC’s “The View.”
The Post announced on Friday that its editorial board wouldn’t be endorsing either presidential candidate, and said they wouldn’t be giving presidential endorsements in any future elections, either.Fox News
Yeah, ‘cuz Trump is so much richer than the guy who owns the paper, the Founder of Amazon, #2 on the Forbes richest list (Trump is #319 Forbes) and will be around forever.
In the days since, two columnists have resigned from the paper and writers have stepped down from the editorial board.
Meanwhile on the Left Coast, The Times is equally reviled for supporting racism fascism ugly spray tans declining to endorse.
Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong said that his decision not to offer readers a recommendation would be less divisive in a tumultuous election year.
A decision by the owner of the Los Angeles Times not to endorse in the 2024 presidential race — after the paper’s editorial board proposed backing Kamala Harris — has created a tempest, prompting three members of the board to resign and provoking thousands of readers to cancel their subscriptions.
The medical technology billionaire, who bought The Times in 2018, posted on the social media site X on Wednesday that he believed he had offered his opinion writers a reasonable alternative to a traditional endorsement. He said they should “draft a factual analysis of all the POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE policies by EACH candidate during their tenures at the White House, and how these policies affected the nation.”
“In addition, the Board was asked to provide their understanding of the policies and plans enunciated by the candidates during this campaign and its potential effect on the nation in the next four years,” he added. “In this way, with this clear and non-partisan information side-by-side, our readers could decide who would be worthy of being President for the next four years.” LA Times
Guess they just couldn’t stand trying to be even a little impartial? In LA, though, the LA Times workers’ guild pleaded with subscribers to stick with the paper – saying their jobs depend on subscribers. MSN Funny, that. Guess principle vs. paycheck has an easy winner.
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The Post told them they could resign in protest.
Still waiting.
A little hymn to go with your thread. If there is a more awesome hymn for a Thursday, I don’t know it.
Preach it! That’ll start your morning! I’m gonna have to find more from these guys!
Saw them in concert in Nashville a few weeks ago, the live show was amazing. I’d suggest “I Need Never Get Old” and “Heartless” (which is a bit lighter). They bring back the good old days of a rocking band with gospel and blues roots and a tenor singer that seems to have been displaced in popular music with, I’m not sure what to call it… Pee Diddly?
And move the Canada….
“And funnily enough, a wave of subscription cancellations. These folks WANT the bias.”
All the people who wanted straight news – hold the bias – canceled their subscriptions years ago.
The only people left who read those rags are the true believers who delight in reading exactly what they what to read and nothing else, and people on the right who use the misinformation and propaganda as blog fodder.
So they basically just pissed off their entire customer base in a vain effort to regain the trust of the people they’ve been gaslighting and insulting for the past several decades.
Good luck with that.
I see it as a “confidence game” kind of scam. They don’t want to become impartial, they want to feign impartiality so that we’ll believe them when they blow smoke up our butts.
No thanks.
Yep…fish wrapper employees/customers screeching like fish wives. Most apropos. Like others here, I’m old enough to remember when newspapers just reported the news, as did the other media outlets. One could find, on the editorial page, an opinion piece, generally with two editors giving opposite opinions on the same subject. Guess that most folks don’t remember from their history that Old Honest Abe himself shut down over 300 newspapers when they printed opinions that didn’t go along with him.
If you pay for an echo chamber, you should get a good echo.
These folks have been fed biased news for so long, that unbiased news looks like fiction to them. They do not want to leave their comfy bubble.
It’s the truth. When Trump states a clearly provable fact they don’t believe it is possible because they didn’t hear it from their news source.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/democrats-insanity-defense
The peeps whom write the columns in the times took the
Herr Joseph Goebbels course on journalism as well as the other left leaning socialist newspaper column writers.
The fake legacy news media has just discovered no one trusts them and are irrelevant.
And, still, will not change from being the propaganda arm of the democrat marxist party.
These are business decisions pure and simple. They can see the writing on the wall: traditional media news, digital & print, are dinosaurs going the way of Blockbuster Video. With DJT about to win, they are hoping reinvent themselves in the model of X. Blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix, but figured they weren’t competition. The papers don’t want this to be the “Netflix Moment” and embrace to future of at least seeming impartial. Its survivor mode after a decades with their thumbs on the scale.
Not exactly, those two on The Washington Post Editorial Board resigned from the Editorial Board because they are people of principle, but did not resign from The Washington Post. They must have taken a look around and saw the only print journalism jobs still available are home delivery of Grit Newspaper.
35% profit? That is criminal! We need to send the SEC, FTC and FBI to investigate.
Either way this isn’t a win scenario…if they endorse Harris it confirms the reality that their reporting is 99-1 favorable to Harris over Trump, and if they endorse no one because of ownership it reveals the editorial board’s lack of autonomy to express their biased opinions if the ownership has bottom line concerns…
If there were concerns that bias negatively impacts the bottom line the ownership position should be more opposing bias writers on the editorial board who are granted equal inch space on the page for their opposing views…otherwise it looks like exactly what it is, a concern that their hand picked lackluster slug of a candidate is a dead heat with Trump instead of the blowout win they were promised by the clowns on the DNC selection committee….so now they are looking to be risk averse…which also indicates the truth of their bias…
It does make me smile perhaps far more than it should that these entities are now facing the potential consequences for a constant barrage of biased tripe…
I agree with this kid:
I think he is more worried that if they endorse the blow back hits him in his Amazon virtual wallet.
Perhaps these newspaper endorsements would carry more weight if the Editorial Board would clearly articulate how Kamal Harris’ policies would benefit the American taxpayers than Donald Trump’s policies. But they can’t, because Kamala Harris cannot give you a policy on how she will fix the economy, immigration, the rising crime, or our world posture without drifting into a meandering story about how she grew up in a middle class neighborhood where everyone cuts their lawn and has a door on their mailbox.
The Main Sleeze Media cucks are running as skeered as if Bedford (That Devil) Forrest hisself is chasing them.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/tv-executive-panics-trump-winning-means-press-has-no-influence-mainstream-media-dead