Vice President Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Right Wing Histrionics and the Precarious Future of American Democracy!
Preferring to remain neutral as opposed to endorsing a presidential candidate resulted in the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post attracting significant attention. These two major newspapers’ decisions sent shock waves reverberating through their corridors of power as well as much of the newspaper industry. On October 23, Mariel Garza, the leader of the Times’ editorial board, resigned, followed by Robert Greene, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer, and fellow editorial columnist Karin Klein the following day, to express their disappointment with owner Patrick Soon-Shiong’s refusal to support a candidate. Washington Post staffers announced that they had already drafted an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and that owner Jeff Bezos halted its publication.
Bezos’s sudden decision to prevent the Washington Post from endorsing presidential candidates resulted in the departure of editor-at-large Robert Kagan who made it clear that he was very disturbed by Post publisher William Lewis’s announcement that the publication would discontinue the practice of endorsing presidential candidates. This is, after all, the publication whose motto is “democracy dies in darkness.” It is notable that Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two reporters who…
