Source: Racket News
by Matt Taibbi
“Around this time last night I read the Levitsky/Ziblatt New York Times editorial about the ‘Fifth Choice’ for stopping Trump, which read like a clarion call to ignore coming bad election news. On the heels of weeks of other catastrophizing editorials, it came as a shock. Now word comes about stunning industry news of another sort. The Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post have declined to endorse either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, which in the case of the Bezos Post especially reads like a decision to surrender to coming bad election news. The Post has been the tip of the anti-Trump spear for years, and with the Times led the movement to openly politicize journalism via its insufferably self-congratulating ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ campaign, so bowing out of the open advocacy game with publisher William Lewis promising a return to the paper’s ‘roots’ is beyond surprising.” (10/26/24)