Tweet on Washington Post subscriber cancelations

Unfathomable: Washpost has lost 200,000 subscribers since Bezos pulled the Harris endorsement. That's 8% of its base in a few days.

Keep in mind its net gain for most of 2024 was only 4,000 (not a typo) subscribers.

Major scoop via @davidfolkenflik https://t.co/ZLdj8GOnQg
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) October 28, 2024

You can write the management of the Post about their cowardice

I did. Their actions are disgraceful.

CALL TO ACTION: Since last Friday, when management at the Washington Post ended presidential endorsements, readers have sent thousands of letters condemning the decision.

Help us reach our 10,000 letter goal to ensure management hears us loud and clear:https://t.co/khe8OmHhqF
— Washington-Baltimore News Guild (@WBNG32035) October 28, 2024

Tweets on the cowardly Los Angeles Times refusal to endorse a presidential candidate

When the @latimes makes news, we must cover our institution with the same scrutiny as we would any other. Here's @latguild member @RaineyTime on what's gone on this week at the @latimes: https://t.co/Tj3RqZtMbW
— L.A. Times Guild 🦅 (@latguild) October 26, 2024

Looks like the decision at the LA Times has also infected the news side.

In an open letter, LA Times Staff calls out owner/leadership:

"The L.A.Times, in contrast, has not published a single story as of Friday morning."

via @latguild https://t.co/gssLwjdFa2 pic.twitter.com/UyZmuwp2sM
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) October 25, 2024

Tonight, two more members of the @latimes editorial board, Robert Greene and Karin Klein, resigned—one day after their boss, editorials editor Mariel Garza, did so. https://t.co/ZVQwweEjP7
— Sewell Chan (@sewellchan) October 25, 2024

https://twitter.com/AmyKinLA/status/1849209551830069654

Meanwhile this Los Angeles Times news report about The Los Angeles Times' owner blocking the paper's endorsement of Kamala Harris and then refuting his daughter's claims about the decision is *wild.*

Rich people are messy AF. https://t.co/O0J7nwL9Sv pic.twitter.com/t8l8uBUr1O
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) October 26, 2024

Just canceled my subscription, @latimes. WTF is wrong with you?https://t.co/HZyKGcfnwz
— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) October 23, 2024

A statement from Los Angeles Times Guild leadership: pic.twitter.com/yjp1LkSW55
— L.A. Times Guild 🦅 (@latguild) October 24, 2024

https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1849957637494104521

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

They’re caving into Trump before he is even elected. Trump will perceive this as a weakness and punish them if he becomes president and they dare to criticize him. What these rich newspaper owners have done is shameful.

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

https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1849863145545924909

https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1849868579728130571

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

Harris’s policies are more popular

Rampell: So yougov polled Americans on policies from both of the candidates and didn't tell the survey respondents whose policies were whose.. the general finding was that Kamala Harris’ agenda was head and shoulders much more popular than Trump's pic.twitter.com/f9OhkSlSLX
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 25, 2024

https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/1849443288782131656

If you watch just one thing today, see this. A compelling explanation of the impact of Trump vs Harris economic policies on the overall economy and working families. 👇🏼 https://t.co/GgvOXRyKWJ
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) October 24, 2024

More tweets on the upcoming 2024 election fiasco

it’s gonna be ugly no matter what happens.

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1849854442721640730

https://twitter.com/opiniontoday/status/1849617568665043162?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1849563500433027440

https://twitter.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1848567663829651834

Sister Annette Marshall: “I’ve never heard us accused of fraud. … Or not existing.” The GOP barrage of imaginary voter fraud nonsense has very much begun: https://t.co/yetP68WLA5
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 25, 2024

Counting ballots takes time, and it’s not evidence of election fraud if a state doesn’t report a winner on election night. But some social media posts are already claiming without evidence that “the cheat has begun.” https://t.co/DQIoW1TygR
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 25, 2024

Tweets on how Trump hasn’t signed transition process documents

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1849825750448263519?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

NEW: Ranking Member @RepRaskin presses Donald Trump and JD Vance to stop obstructing the transition process and to commit to orderly transfer of power: https://t.co/kg8GGKLJNu
— Oversight Committee Democrats (@OversightDems) October 23, 2024

Trump lies on immigration

Except it’s not true. As @ddale8 has fact-checked: “Trump falsely claimed Friday and Saturday that the statistics are specifically about criminal offenders who entered the US during the Biden-Harris administration; in reality, the figures are about offenders who entered the US… https://t.co/fVyN1MWNYw
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) September 29, 2024

Trump: “Last week, a lot of people came in from the Congo. A big prison in the Congo. In Africa.”

This never happened.
pic.twitter.com/D97FeTQR96
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) September 29, 2024

During Trump's presidency, hundreds of thousands of migrants were released into the US interior, per @David_J_Bier calculations. It's incredible that this fact is absent from our whole discourse on immigration. There is no serious scrutiny of Trump's claims about his own record. https://t.co/bbBV48VO2c
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) September 29, 2024

Vastly important. Trump camp &all its influencers shared these fake numbers for days about migrant murderers 'released into US' under Biden. Totally fake. The numbers go back to ALL previous admins and includes people currently in prison. Totally bogus. https://t.co/zGfLXINOVz
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 29, 2024

Trump says migrants with weapons have taken over Times Square. Big, if true. pic.twitter.com/hTy2LetB8N
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 24, 2024

Newspaper cowardice on endorsements

The rich owner of the LA Times prevented the paper from endorsing Harris. Is something similar happening at the Washington Post? Are their wealthy owners intimidated by Trump’s threats against the media? Cowards!

Washington Post editorial board under Will Lewis reportedly waffling on whether to make a presidential endorsement this year. https://t.co/occKMlRG4G pic.twitter.com/9JDKfCTh7u
— Christopher Ingraham🦗 (@_cingraham) October 24, 2024

“Outlets from the Los Angeles Times to perhaps even the Washington Post are engaging in… anticipatory obedience — pulling back from their obligation to tell the truth in order to placate the tyrant so he doesn’t come after them,” @ianbassin says. https://t.co/DGTFqrPatQ
— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) October 24, 2024

Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement https://t.co/hAhY6mj9Za via @cjr
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) October 24, 2024

Trump on the free press at his Tempe, AZ, rally just now:

"They're the enemy of the people, they are"

"I've been asked not to say that… They're the enemy of the people, and some day they're not gonna be the enemy of the people, I hope."
— Ian Sams (@IanSams) October 24, 2024

On political endorsement https://t.co/e5OTZhylIE

This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty. @realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others). Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.
— Marty Baron (@PostBaron) October 25, 2024

NEW: A statement from @robrtgreene, who just resigned from @latimes editorial board: pic.twitter.com/tokgPne475
— Sewell Chan (@sewellchan) October 25, 2024

https://twitter.com/mccartneywp/status/1849625825261326653?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

It’s also possible that publisher William Lewis, a British conservative and Murdoch veteran, would have a role if Post declines to endorse. Post Editorial page has a long history of endorsing Democrats for president and has roundly condemned Trump for various things.
— Robert McCartney (@McCartneyWP) October 25, 2024

The LA Times editorial board voted to endorse Kamala Harris

The LA Times owners vetoed the endorsement

Now the head of the LA Times editorial board has resigned in protest

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA PROFITS OFF TRUMP — they have an inherent bias and must NOT be taken at face value
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) October 23, 2024