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LA Times editor resigns after owner refuses presidential endorsement

Oct 24, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    48% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -8% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : How could we spend eight years railing against Trump and the danger his leadership poses to the country and then fail to endorse the perfectly decent Democrat challenger - who we previously endorsed for the US Senate?"On Wednesday, Semafor reported that the non-endorsement appeared to be costing the financially struggling Los Angeles Times some of its subscribers.
23% : "I told myself that presidential endorsements don't really matter; that California was not ever going to vote for Trump; that no one would even notice; that we had written so many "Trump is unfit" editorials that it was as if we had endorsed her," Garza wrote.
19% : Related: Kamala Harris denounces Trump as 'fascist' who wants 'unchecked power'Soon-Shiong wrote that the paper's opinion editors, who typically endorse one candidate each for a range of local and national offices and explains why each candidate is the best pick, to instead present "clear and non-partisan information side-by-side, our readers could decide who would be worthy of being President for the next four years.

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