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Jeff Bezos kills Washington Post editorial board presidential endorsement

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Same thing at LA Times: https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/los-angeles-times-edito...

The daughter of the LA Times owner wrote: "There is a lot of controversy and confusion over the LAT’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate. I trust the Editorial Board’s judgment. For me, genocide is the line in the sand."

https://x.com/nikasoonshiong/status/1849671252052439145

Absolute nonsense. It wasn't the Editorial Board's decision, it was her father's. He has publicly stated that he blocked the endorsement, and multiple members of the Editorial Board have resigned in protest.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/25/los-angeles-...

https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-times-editors-resign-...

The point to me was the owner's daughter suggesting the genocide was their family's reason for not wanting to endorse.

Funny that she tried launder it through the Editorial Board's "judgement," in that case.

Exactly. Soon-Shiong said he didn't want to "add to the division," and that he had asked the Editorial Board to "publish a list of positive and negative attributes about both of the presidential candidates." His daughter's claim that the decision was based on the candidates' support of Israel has no basis in any reporting.

It's also just a bad lie, because her father and (now former) members of the Editorial Board have spoken publicly about their reasons.

Here's the NYT report: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/us/los-angeles-times-endo...

A warning or a promise?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Dies_in_Darkness

This is not the title of the article.

> An endorsement of Harris had been drafted by Post editorial page staffers but had yet to be published, according to two sources briefed on the sequence of events who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The decision not to publish was made by The Post’s owner — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — according to the same sources.

But pretty much the summary of the article

The writing is on the wall.

https://archive.ph/bcIJs

Title: The Washington Post says it will not endorse a candidate for president

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