As someone who used to write regularly for the newspaper, it has been a long time since I have had an occasion to say this but . . . Bravo, Washington Post.
This week, the Post announced that not only would it not endorse a candidate this year, but it would not do so in the future. Over two decades ago, I wrote a column calling for newspapers to end the practice of all election endorsements. (Yes, before all things seemed to turn on how you feel about Donald Trump). I have continued to push the press to abandon this pernicious practice.
When I first came out against political endorsements, the media had not taken the plunge into advocacy journalism, which is now strangling the life out of this industry.
As former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones has declared that “all journalism is activism.”
After a series of interviews with over 75 media leaders, Leonard Downie Jr., former Washington Post executive editor, and Andrew Heyward, former CBS News president, reaffirmed this shift. As Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle, stated: “Objectivity has got to go.”
The result has been the plummeting of trust in the media to an all-time low. Revenues and readership are falling as outlets struggle to survive. Yet, reporters are still refusing to reconsider the abandonment of neutrality and objectivity.
Recently, Post owner Jeff Bezos brought in Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis, who promptly delivered a truth bomb in the middle of the newsroom by telling the staff, “Let’s not sugarcoat it…We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right? I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.”
The response was calls for Lewis and other editors to be canned. These reporters would rather give up their very jobs than their bias.
Now Lewis is under fire again after announcing, “We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.”
The Washington Post Guild immediately went ballistic at the thought of not openly supporting Kamala Harris, though many would point out that the Post has hardly been subtle in its coverage on that point.
The Guild expressed alarm at the thought of leaving readers to reach their own conclusions “a mere 11 days ahead of an immensely consequential election.” According to the staff, the Post needs “to help guide readers,” and “according to our own reporters and Guild members, an endorsement for Harris was already drafted, and the decision not to publish was made by The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos.”
Perish the thought that the Post would start to raise free-range readers left to reach their own conclusions.
Former executive editor Martin “Marty” Baron and others went into absolute vapors. Baron declared, “This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty.”
Others retreated into anonymity to denounce their management, with some making precisely the case for not doing such endorsement: “It very disingenuously draws false equivalencies. This is not, for example, Kamala Harris vs. Mitt Romney. This is Kamala Harris against someone who tried to disenfranchise the electorate last time.”
It is ironic since, at the time, Romney was portrayed as a fascist, as were prior Republican nominees.
One of the most curious responses came from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I, Vt.): “This is what Oligarchy is about. Jeff Bezos, the 2nd wealthiest person in the world and the owner of the Washington Post, overrides his editorial board and refuses to endorse Kamala.”
An oligarchy is defined as “government by the few.” That is precisely what the public sees in an effective state media and why “Let’s Go Brandon!” became a type of “Yankee Doodling” of the political and media establishment.
Sanders’s objection is that the owner decided not to exercise the power of the few but instead left the choice to voters. According to Sanders, that is the definition of oligarchy in declining to act as an oligarch.
As discussed years ago, the decision of newspapers to engage in political endorsements has had a corrosive influence for years. It destroys the separation between newspapers and those who are supposed to be the subjects of their investigatory and journalistic work.
My prior column called for the termination of not just presidential endorsements, though it is a good start. There should be a commitment to total neutrality in all elections, from judges to senators to presidents.
The Washington Post is not alone. The Los Angeles Times has declined to make an endorsement, which also led to a staff revolt.
The decision not to endorse in this election could prove a critical moment for mainstream media in turning the corner on the era of advocacy journalism. While skeptical, I genuinely hope that Bezos has decided to reconsider the course of the Post. We need the Post and the rest of the mainstream media. The media plays a critical role in our democracy as a neutral source of information on government abuse and corruption.
However, that role also needs the trust of the public. Otherwise, as Lewis told the Post staff, “no one is reading your stuff.”
That is evident from the very closeness of this election. After years of unrelenting anti-Trump coverage and a billion-dollar war chest to sell Harris to the public, the country is still divided right down the middle.
The Post and other papers are writing for each other and core Democratic readers. The rest of America is moving on to new media on social media and other sources.
For those of us who loved the old Post and want our “Fourth Estate” to be strong, this is a meaningful start.
So Bravo, Washington Post.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
This column ran in Fox.com.
Does anybody really believe haShem takes exception (Ex. 20:13) to a preemptive defensive strike against an enemy of Israel’s missile installation at an hour when intelligence has determined will result in fewest human casualties – only two individuals – weighed against preventing even one Israeli death? (B.H.)
Stephen King says he is canceling his subscription to the New York Times. Does that mean he’s going to pull his books of Amazon? Im waiting.
Turley reports that “the Guild expressed alarm at the thought of leaving readers to reach their own conclusions “and that “according to the staff, the Post needs ‘to help guide readers’.” Isn’t that too much like what Joseph Goebbels had in mind when he so faithfully served Adolph Hitler?
I am not sure it will make any difference for restoring objective journalism so long as illiberal academia continues to indoctrinate and graduate ideologues as journalists. What the backlash against the ownership and leadership of the Post shows is that the inmates have long been too much in charge of the asylum to so easily amend any of their intentions now.
Jonathan: Why did Jeff Bezos kill the WP endorsement of Kamala Harris? It’s pretty clear. Bezos is in a fight with Elon Musk for control of space. Bezo’s “Blue Horizon” space program is losing the fight with Musk’s Space X that has a lot of government contracts. Bezo’s wants some of those contracts. He knows that if he were to endorse Harris, and DJT were to win the election, his chances to get contracts with a DJT administration would be next to nil. So Bezos gave up press freedom and caved. He thinks the profit motive comes before protecting Democracy!
And what explains the similar decision by the LA Times this week? The paper is owned by billionaire, South African born (like Elon Musk), Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong who ordered the cancellation of the editorial board’s planned endorsement of Harris–despite years of the Times endorsements in general elections. This caused an uproar among Times staff. Mariel Garza, the paper’s editorial editor, resigned in protest saying; “I am resigning because I want to make clear that I am not okay with us being silent. In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up…An endorsement [of Harris] was the logical next stop after a series of editorials we’ve been writing about how dangerous Trump is to Democracy, about his unfitness to be president, about his threats to jail his enemies,…”
Of course, Soon-Shiong’s decision didn’t stop Paul Thornton, the Times’ weekend editor, from giving his opinion. He started out this morning with a big shout out to the Dodgers winning the first game of the World Series against the Yankees. Thornton then focused on the election saying: “Good news is, there’s plenty of evidence to show why it won’t turn out well if we elect a president who wants to round up millions of people, admires fascist regimes that inflicted mass death and suffering, and wants to, in effect, isolate the American economy from the world…Please, with the election 11 days away, read up on history–or just listen to the extraordinary warnings of former high-level Trump White House staffers. Then, you can go back to watching the World Series. Go Dodgers, and go democracy”.
What do the decisions by Bezos and Soon-Shiong have in common? Profit motive over standing up for our Democracy. They are cowards who don’t want to alienate DJT who they know will go after them if he is re-elected. They mistakenly believe remaining “neutral” will protect their businesses. Who was it who said “You can’t be neutral on a run away train?”
* scored some points macinliar.
* Guess who has no government contracts?
Dennis – buy your own paper and endorse whoever you wish.
Thorton can do the same.
As to “reading up on History”
Hitler – Socialist,
Musollini – Socialist.
Mao – Socialist
Stalin – Socialist.
Pol Pot – Socialist.
Peron – Socialist.
Harris – Socialist.
Trump – Anti-Socialist.
Pretty clear who is clueless about history.
Can you name a single government leader in all of history that sought to reduce taxes, increase individual liberty, restore free speech, and govenrment censorship, reduce govenrment regulation, reduce govenrment generally that has EVER rounded up its politcal enemies ?
Historically in the US it is democrats that have weaponized government power against political enemies – see Eugene Debbs – convicted By Democrat Wilson, pardoned by Republican Harding.
Historically it is democrats who rounded up and interned people – such as FDR putting US citizens of Japanese descent into concentration camps.
The US right has been far from perfect – but the most heinous acts in US history from slavery to political persecution, to putting innocent people into concentration camps has been done by DEMOCRATS – and primarily PROGRESSIVE democrats.
You and Thornton need to learn REAL history.
Tulsi Gabbard nailed Harris for the totalitarian that she is in the DNC debates in 2019.
More recently we are getting the picture of Harris in her own words as we learn more of her own Totalitarian actions as DA and AG in California. Ruining the lives of a family – because their daughter – an A+ student was in the hospital too many days with sickle cell anemia.
And Why ? Not because of the harm truancy does to students. But because it Cost California Federal dollars.
For Harris other peoples rights and lives are secondary to Money.
Trump is not nearly so great as he thinks he is.
Harris is ACTUALLY very dangerous.
Shame on you for defending her.
John Say,
Great comment and excellent take down of Dennis!
Bezos and Musk are competing for space.
I think that is fantastic.
Each should benefit in the free market to the extent that they are able to deliver.
I have no personal preference for either Musk or Bezos. Both have done incredible things and provided wealth prosperity and jobs to untold thousands of people.
So Far Blue Orion and Bezos are WAAAY behind in the quest for space.
Musk has launched hundreds of rockets this year.
If you want something in space – call SpaceX and pay a cost/lb that is about a factor of 100 lower than anyone else.
NASA has shutdown all of their programs after wasting billions and falling WAY behind Musk.
The advanced programs are all dead. decades long workhorses – like atlas have been mothballed – because Falcon 9 is FAR cheaper.
I will be happy to see Bezos get something of consequence to space – so far he has not.
Russia can not get to space cost effectively anymore.
The EU is like everyone else – using SpaceX because they are way cheaper.
China is making clones of Falcon 9’s and the are failing all over the place.
And SpaceX is very close to Starship moving from testing to replacing everything as the space Truck.
Starship is another order of magnitude cheaper than Falcon 9 at $/lb into space.
Again – I will be happy to see Bezos, or Allen, or anyone else successfully compete with Musk.
But today Musk is WAAAAY ahead.
NASA is with certainty going to spend Billions with Musk – because they are no longer capable of delivering things to space at 1000 times the cost Musk can. DoD is going to spend billions with Musk – because they are no longer capable of delivering lb’s to space at reasonable costs.
Everyone is going to be paying Musk to put things into space – because he can do so cheaper than anyone else by far.
If Bezos wants a cut of that – he needs to be competitive. He has had plenty of time.
Again I have no animus towards Bezos. Frankly I wish he was competitive with Musk. Competition is good.
But not so good that we chop the legs off the fastest sprinter, so that the slower guy can keep up.
John Say,
A great example of how well the free market works. Thank you for pointing that out.
Dennis McIntyre posted Jonathan: Why did Jeff Bezos kill the WP endorsement of Kamala Harris?
Dennis, the reason “Jonathan” doesn’t even acknowledge your existence is that he despises you. Not just for being a liar, but also as a cheap grifter that won’t pay for his own blog.
But… you left us without your Breaking News Update! for the weekend. Happy to help you with that:
Texas makes criminal referral to DOJ over fraudulent ActBlue Democrat donations
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/paxton-makes-criminal-referral-doj-over-actblue-donations
and
Democrats Freaking Out, Fear Blowjob Expert Kamala Harris Is ‘Blowing’ the Election
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/10/25/democrats-freaking-out-fear-kamala-harris-is-blowing-the-election-n2181063
I agree with Professor Turley. Instead of endorsing a specific candidate, newspapers should seek op Eds on each of the candidates. Let outsiders make their cases and let the readers decide.
I can’t remember the last time the majority of major newspaper publishers or editorial boards endorsed a non-Democrat for President. Heck, I even remember the vast support among the press for Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, and Michael Dukakis, all from about 40 years ago. I am not evaluating whether those were good and valid endorsements; it’s just that those were the three most lopsided presidential elections in the last 50 years. I could also add the 1972 election, when Richard Nixon defeated his Democrat opponent by a large margin, but I don’t have any reference of newspaper endorsements for that year. But my interpretation of these endorsements when I read them is, “Just what I expected. Another major newspaper endorses the Democrat nominee for President.”
I guess that fascism is when the Democrats’ political opponent doesn’t act like a fascist. Maybe they’ll catch on to that.
WaPo won’t endorse K. LAT won’t endorse K. Teamsters Union won’t endorse K. But . . . the likes of Beyonce, Eminem, and Bruce Springsteen will.
OTOH, RFK, Jr. endorses T. Former Dem presidential candidate Tulsi endorses T. Musk endorses T. National Border Patrol endorses T. Fraternal Order of Police endorses T. There is a notable change in the prevailing winds since 2020.
Musk in particular is worthy of note. He’s criticized as being a billionaire, but he is only that because he has started some very successful companies that have had made some impressive achievements, such as SpaceX and Tesla. He has much to lose from endorsing T because he’s such a big government contractor. But he knows from the inside how over-regulation strangles the oxygen out of business, and he knows from the inside how the ruling uniparty cabal wants to strangle free speech.
As for WaPo and LAT, I doubt their endorsement of K, had it been made, would have changed even a single vote. They overrate their own influence. Nobody looks to them for advice on voting. They are known to be left-wing shills.
One other thing about Musk. He’s a billionaire on paper because of his ownership of stock in successful companies. But unlike other billionaires such as Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and the late Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founders), he doesn’t even own a yacht, that’s not what he’s about. He’s all about work, achievement, giving more than you take, and leaving the world a better place to best of his ability to discern what that means. He should not lightly be dismissed as merely serving his own pecuniary interests in endorsing Trump. That would be a shallow and inaccurate reading of the situation.
OMFK
That is if they don’t become ensnared in the PDiddly tar baby. They’re all freaks, some participated and will be leaving the country. Epstein, Diddy they’re all black holes, all consuming and just like a black hole it’s coming for the stars!
OldManFromKS,
One thing I think we can say about Beyonce, Eminem, and Bruce Springsteen you mentioned. They all have successful careers and will continue on no matter who is elected.
The WaPo, LA Times, their futures are not early as bright.
Although I would bet Harris lost some votes after they promises a Beyonce concert, got a three minute speech of Beyonce endorsing Harris and then Beyonce walked off. People were pissed! Many walked out. Reports that the SS were stressed out at the situation as it got heated. After all, these people paid tickets to see a Beyonce concert. Harris and the DNC sure did play them off as suckers.
Upstate – interesting, I didn’t know any of that. But I know she also lost votes by telling someone who said “Jesus is Lord” that he was at the wrong rally, and he wanted the “smaller one down the street.”
I imagine, however, that her biggest vote-losing conduct is simply opening her mouth. Whenever she does, she sounds dumb as a rock. She can’t articulate any interesting thought, any interesting policy proposal. Really all she does is spew meaningless tripe in the form of cringy word salads. People who are not in the tank for the Left look at that and say, “Wait, is that really the person I want as president?” Even though Trump’s personality is a turnoff to many people (and I totally get that), after four years of Biden (which even Tim Walz said we can’t have more of), people are waking up to the reality that the president’s policies do matter, and that Trump’s policies led to a much better situation than what we have now in terms of what people care about, such as the border, the economy, crime, and wars . . . not to mention that he has promised to end men competing in women’s sports. On the other hand, Kamala scores points with the abortion issue, but the people for whom that issue is #1 simply is not enough to outweigh the other important problems.
Harris opened her mouth during the debate with Trump and did quite well.
Did quite well at never responding to a question.
She never closes her gigantic hyena cackling mouth. Just try to hold your mouth open as she does. Do bugs fly in and out. Is that what Willie Brown saw in her that attracted him?
Putin said Harris has an infectious laugh. Somehow I think Vladimir had tongue in cheek.
Kamala did well? She would’ve been crushed with only one response to her nonsense, over and over.
“That’s debunked hogwash, and I yield the rest of my time back to Kamala so she can answer the question you asked her.”
“the likes of Beyonce, Eminem, and Bruce Springsteen will (endorse Harris)… Musk in particular is worthy of note…”
Artists should stick to their art. Would I say the same for businessmen? No, actually. Businessmen, along with the rest of us ordinary citizens, are very much affected by politicians in our daily lives. I guess that potentially is also true of artists, but the reality is that Federal law and policy favors that group almost without exception. The likes of those three probably tell themselves that they are selflessly advocating on behalf of their fans, but that is really a crock. Maybe that self-deception is necessary to fulfilling the demands of stardom, I really don’t know. I almost totally ignore what musicians, actors, producers, etc. say and do outside of their narrow performance venues. Otherwise I could listen to almost no music, and watch almost no movies.
Off topic, so, please, forgive me. Amity Shlaes knocks it out of the park with the column below:
https://www.coolidgereview.com/forgotten-book/living-in-lbj-america
My favorite section from her column:
“Others, such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then a professor at Harvard, tried to characterize what was wrong with Johnson’s approach… Moynihan warned against the danger of handing policy to educated bureaucrats, fostering what political scientist Harold Lasswell termed a ‘monocracy of power.’”
We now call it the “Deep State” and it’s real. They knew even in 1965.
I now return you to your regularly-scheduled deprogramming.
I read that earlier today. Excellent piece. I particularly like the following comment:
LBJ’s experiments were not experiments in the true sense, for they lacked science and accountability. They were actually Hail Marys.
I’ve long said that LBJ shackled blacks onto the Democrat plantation with his welfare state creation. His racism, per to his own words, was disgusting but apparently just dandy for present day Democrats and of course black racists like enigmainblack, et al
I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
https://www.azquotes.com/author/7511-Lyndon_B_Johnson
What is dandy for present day Democrats in terms of LBJ is the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act (1968).
Architecture, culture, music, theater and others thrived under Hitler.
Tell us you are an imbecile without telling us you are an imbecile
“Architecture, culture, music, theater and others thrived under Hitler.”
That is something that an ignorant Nazi might say, but not a person loving freedom. Low-IQ folk don’t read enough to realize that architecture, culture, music, theater and others were restricted and tightly controlled to reflect the Nazi ideology. Hitler led to the death of old buildings, culture and people.
Thank you, Wally, for letting us know what type of fellow you are.
The ones the democrats fought so strongly agains???
Nobody mentioned AWS. Greenwald did.
WaPo is just an expensive toy to Bezos.
But he has another, more important toy, an actual innovative business, Blue Origen, which looks to government contracts that dwarf the value of dying and irrelevant WaPo.
Blue Origen executives, and Bezos, know that good relations with Trump are important.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4954591-trump-meets-blue-origin-leaders-bezos
Trump likes people who can actually do things and Bezos and Musk certainly can do a lot of things.
I think it might be an overreach to credit WaPo’s decision to anything related to journalistic ethics, if ethics is even a thing in journalism these days.
As an aside, I think most papers would be improved, maybe even saved, if they would stop hiring graduates of journalism schools. I shouldn’t need to explain why.
* point scored, Young
“Blue Origen executives, and Bezos, know that good relations with Trump are important.”
Ha! That concern may be a little late. With Trump in the White House, the award of any space-related contracts that involve administrative discretion (i.e., not stipulated for “lowest bidder”) are going to be very interesting. Would you like to bet on Blue Origin getting anything other than the leftovers that SpaceX turns up its nose at? I wouldn’t take such a bet, no matter the odds offered.
I am not sure what will happen with Blue Origin if Trump wins. Besides Musk’s endorsement there are many reasons to favor SpaceX…most of those reasons are variations on ‘incredible!”
On the other hand it may be better for the country if there is more than one company capable of launching with the regularity of a commercial airline on a routine schedule and unlike most Democrats, Trump is fundamentally practical.
I suspect many young engineers will flee DEI companies like Boeing and join one of Musk’s ventures or, failing that, something Bezos is doing. Dream jobs where you are encouraged to imagine and are not strangled by CPAs and HR departments infected with DEI.
I bet the “Lost in Space” astronauts were relieved to learn they wouldn’t have to try to return to earth on the Boeing product and could return with SpaceX instead. In their place, after all the problems, I think I would have declined the Boeing ride. There are better ways to die.
Young, the Boeing capsule landed without a hitch.
For the 2nd time:
Young, the Boeing product landed safely.
Which Boeing product is that, Benson?
The one that the door fell off of? The one that the hydrualic system failed on? The one that returned from space unmanned? Oh, goodie, no fatalities on those!!
Or was it the V-22 Osprey, that has killed 62 people in 12 crashes?
Or was it the 737 Max, that killed 346 people in two crashes?
Or was it the Boeing whistleblower, mysteriously found dead just before his court case?
I’m telling you, Dave, the Rivastigmine patch is time released, and can help with your late day issues with blurting out stupid shlt.
Sure it did. But the safety and reliability was so questionable they would not risk the lives of those two astronauts. They had no problem sending Musk and his SpaceX ship as it has been proven safe and reliable. Boeing, back to the drawing board.
* Let’s add Vanguard and Black Rock groups and what really controls the now defunct military.
AS IF the unwashed hordes really had a vote. Lipstick on a pig.
If the vote truly mattered dou you think they would let ua?
Mark Twain
“As an aside, I think most papers would be improved, maybe even saved, if they would stop hiring graduates of journalism schools. I shouldn’t need to explain why.”
Not a journalist, but given the number of people who graduate from journalism schools each year, I doubt even 1% of them are working at the propaganda outlets, versus working for local newspapers, industry journals, magazines, etc.
Ahh, there is nothing less healthy than a daily diet of the MSM’s excrement. Activism (agenda driven bias) is not journalism, but instead, creative writing explicitly used to substantiate personal opinion, often devoid of actual fact. Under the faux reliance referencing “Freedom of the Press”, the Fourth Estate will continue to abuse the Chumps. Maybe the same democrat argument, “NO CONSTITUTIONAL ABSOLUTES”, (specifically referenced to the 2nd Amendment) needs to apply to the 1st Amendment as well.
A journalist gets 1 vote. Where does it say they get to amplify their impact on the election outcome beyond one vote?
Plus, I think more than a few journalists that “helped” Biden win ended up unimpressed with his leadership ability.
Where does it say that Pb? Pretty sure it’s covered in the first amendment of the constitution.
pbinca tried this sophistry: A journalist gets 1 vote. Where does it say they get to amplify their impact on the election outcome beyond one vote?
Now now… let’s not go full Kalifornia Valley Girl, pbinca.
The “journalist” who wrote the “Trump-Russia Dossier” for Obama/Clinton/the DNC only got one vote (legally). How much impact did that writer have on the election and the Trump presidency with the Trump Russia Dossier they wrote for the Democrats to “leak” to the media?
The FBI agent inside Facebook and/or the executive that gave the order to censor the Washington Post publishing their story on the Biden Bribery Laptop in 2020. They only got one vote – tell everybody if that order to prevent that story from seeing the light of day was able to have an impact on the 2020 election outcome beyond their personal vote.
Pbinca… I actually don’t think you’re a moron. I think you’re an incredibly poor liar and political apparatchik instead.
I wouldn’t trust the washington post to light a fire
it is corrupt TOP TO BOTTOM!
* So suddenly Mr Bezos or WaPo editor care about TRUTH? Is that what you’re saying? Suddenly a change of heart to ethical journalism? No, it’s clearly about that hoe, commerce.
Observation, apparently writing for the left doesn’t work. They don’t read. The right doesn’t read bunk and that left the media with nothing? Are you saying that?
Didn’t want to sugar-coat it.
OT without morals and ethics elections as free and fair are impossible. And that’s exactly what creates 3rd worlds. A stunning lack of morals and ethics.
Is Professor Turley engaging in wishful thinking with this column i.e. maybe these media outlets that have been serving as naked propaganda arms of Democrat politicians want to regain being seen as credible by the public? And when was the last time they were seen as credible, BTW? During the Obama presidency? That’s a rhetorical question…
These bird cage liners sanctimoniously proclaiming they aren’t going to provide the automatic endorsement of the Democrat will be nothing but a blip on the screen of public consciousness.
The CONTENT of the media hasn’t changed and I will be amazed if there’s any detectable change in content after the election. It’s what they DO, not what they say, Professor Turley.
Example: The same day of these proclamations, Harris blatantly lied several times in speeches that “police officers were murdered January 6th”, along with the usual “Trump is a fascist”, etc. Everybody paying attention who didn’t just arrive on Earth knows that no police officers were murdered on January 6th, despite the fact Capitol Police lied for months one officer was killed by being clubbed in the head, until they were forced to release autopsy reports showing there was no evidence of head trauma.
The point being, we have known for years that one officer died later from a cerebral hemorrhage having nothing to do with the riot that took place apart from the protest. Every journalist from these propaganda media companies reporting on Harris’ campaign speeches know she was lying about murdered police, as did Anderson Cooper who sat and nodded his head as she repeated that lie.
Not one of them even said “she was inaccurate regarding police who died”. If her name had been Trump, the headline would have said “Trump flat out lied”. They just give Harris and that oft-repeated Democrat lie a pass. In doing so, in their ACTIONS they continue their endorsement of Harris regardless of SAYING they will not endorse.
So, this announcement might cheer Professor Turley up (and provide content for a column). In the real world, this doesn’t even begin to move the needle as far as the media remaining as corrupt as the Democrats they partner with in their Soviet Democrat- Marxist Media Political Propaganda Complex. That presumably should make Professor Turley sad.
There is a world of difference between opinion journalism where they either cheer or excoriate politicians as their values see them, versus knowingly pushing flat out known lies in a partnership with a political party to deceive readers/viewers. We know this difference.
Professor Turley knows this as well as we know the difference.
But again, he also just told us that he sees the choice between another Trump presidency and a Harris presidency to be a difficult one to decide.
It’s as clear as the nose on your face. The owners of The Post and the LA Times watched the Harris interview on CNN and realized that they were going to have to defend an airhead for the next four years. There stomachs became queasy at the thought. Better to have Trump as President for four years than allow Harris to damage the Democratic brand for generations to come. Billionaires are really good at assessing all the information and projecting the future. They are doing the party a favor.
The Post doesn’t need to explicitly endirse. Their choice has been obvious for years in their ‘news’ articles.
The rubber has finally met the road. Bezos has informed the newsroom (same as the editorial room) that the paper can no longer afford to be an unpaid contributor to the cause of the Democratic Party. One would think that if nobodies reading their stuff they might perform an act of retrospection. Instead they ask, why don’t the unwashed understand that we are members of the superior caste and by our birthright we have been giving control of what you can see and hear? Shut up and eat your cake.
For Professor Turley
Youngkin responds as judge orders Virginia to restore 1,600 voter registrations canceled in effort to purge noncitizens
https://www.wdbj7.com/2024/10/25/youngkin-responds-judge-orders-virginia-restore-1600-voter-registrations-canceled-effort-purge-noncitizens/
And Youngkin & Miyares have vowed to appeal to 4th Circuit for emergency injunctive relief, and to SCOTUS if it isn’t granted.
If billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk don’t want Harris to win, then maybe she is actually good for people who are NOT billionaires.
I’m not scared of Mexicans. I’m not scared of Haitians. I’m not scared of trans people, immigrants, Muslims, Jews or (most) Christians.
What am I scared of?
Billionaires buying news outlets & colluding with foreign adversaries to buy our election.
You should be too.
Vote accordingly