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LA Times opinion editor quits after billionaire owner kills endorsement (sfstandard.com)

submitted 4 days ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/california@lemmy.world

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 55 points 4 days ago

Garza confirmed her departure in a text message to The Standard. In an interview with Columbia Journalism Review, she said she resigned “to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent.”

In her resignation letter, Garza wrote of the non-endorsement, “It makes us look craven and hypocritical, maybe even a bit sexist and racist. 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?”

Good for her.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 57 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Makes you wonder why this election is actually so close

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Because many low-income/rural voters don't know that billionaire Trump despises them?

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Probably more to do with the decrepit racist elites subverting democracy and force feeding lies into the electorate.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 17 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I mentioned Trump!

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Semafor has good reporting on this as well.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've tended not to link to them because they're deep in the woods of "get fossil fuels companies as the main sponsors of our climate reporting" — to the point that the first person they hired to do a climate newsletter resigned over it.

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

This link is definitely going into the "things to reply to MBFC bot with when it claims that Semafor is least-biased" folder.

It think it's a good reason to hold a grudge against Semafor for doing this, but it's not just a Semafor problem. Even the most prestigious journals have shilled for oil companies; it's not as much a failing of the organization as much as it is a feature of the capitalist system.

I like the idea of rewarding individuals with principles and integrity. We should be posting more of Bill Spindle's stuff. Cipher News appears to have good reporting as well.