Why Isn't the LA Times Giving Its Endorsement?

Here is a bit of a surprise this election cycle. That bastion of a liberal voice in California, the Los Angeles Times, has decided NOT to endorse ANYONE for President.

 

Can you imagine that? It was reported in Wednesday's late online edition of the New York Post that Mariel Garza is leaving her post as the Editorials Page Editor at the Times because she wants “to make it clear that I am not OK with us being silent” after biotech entrepreneur, Patrick Soon-Shiong, publisher and owner, scrapped the paper’s endorsement for President.

For months, the paper has pushed for Biden, and now Harris, in articles and editorials written about this election, and its position that it would be “bad for America” to re-elect Donald Trump. Last week Ms Garza had written the editorial endorsement and was told the paper was not going to publish it.

This is a paper which, at one time, endorsed Richard Nixon. In fact, for 90 years, from its founding in 1881 until Nixon’s re-election in 1972, the Los Angeles Times was unwavering in backing Republican nominees for President.

Then, suddenly, it stopped the practice until it endorsed Barack Obama twice, Hillary Clinton and in 2020, Joe Biden. Now, it has taken another hiatus.

The paper has long been a left-wing paper, much like the Washington Post and the New York Times. But for reasons yet unexplained, the paper and its owner has not said why it made this decision.

After news broke that the LA Times would forgo a Presidential endorsement, the move was cheered by the Trump campaign.

And while the paper has chosen a Democrat for President since 2008, it didn’t endorse Harris for California attorney general in 2010, instead opting for Republican Steve Cooley, the Columbia Journalism Review reported.

Does the owner know something about The Kamster he feels is not acceptable to him?

Hmmmm.