More tweets on cowardly decisions by the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times to not endorse a presidential candidate

When I was an editor at the Chicago Tribune, I'd tell colleagues that our product wasn't ink on paper or words on an iPhone. It was credibility. That's what we were selling. Credibility.
To see the Washington Post flush away its credibility by kowtowing to Trumpism is crushing.

— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) October 25, 2024

By deciding not to editorialize, @washingtonpost and @latimes are violating rule 1 of Timothy Snyder's warnings "On Tyranny."

1.
Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more…

— Stuart Stevens (@stuartpstevens) October 25, 2024

Scoop: Washington Post editor at large Robert Kagan confirms to me that he resigned from the Post following today's decision not to endorse in the presidential race. https://t.co/as86U0hYqh

— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 25, 2024

Another dead canary.

If you needed further evidence of how quickly the space for freedom of the press can shrink under autocratic-leaning political leadership.

And why a Trump administration 2.0 would be qualitatively different.https://t.co/9mzZ3OqCFX

— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) October 25, 2024

—-> Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong have chosen to preemptively bend the knee to an autocratic wannabe, throwing their newspapers into turmoil and abdicating their responsibilities as media owners. https://t.co/WdR8Eejhph

— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) October 25, 2024