by Susan Duclos, All News Pipeline:
One week left until the presidential election day, and I sit here surrounded by boxes that still need unpacking, but I am happy to be back behind the keyboard for an election-related piece, but the focus is on the manner the media is handling this election in contrast to prior elections and how MSM readers and staff are going to war with outlet owners over decisions being made about coverage.
Not all of the media as many papers are endorsing a presidential candidate, but the Washington Post and LA times, just to name two, have decided to no longer endorse presidential candidates, and a recent op-ed by Washington Post’s owner, billionaire Jeff Bezo’s tells a story of making the right decision for all the wrong reasons.
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On the flip side we have the New York Times, who endorsed Kamala Harris, but has also been exposed as relying on “analysis” by the far-left Media Matters for America.
So where do we start…. the backlash against the news organizations that have put a stop to presidential endorsements.
THE BACKLASH…..
The Hollywood Reporter headlines with “More Editors Exit Los Angeles Times Amid Paper’s Presidential Endorsement Scandal,” where the headline itself shows exactly what is wrong with the media, not just their hand-in-hand connection with the Democrats, but that they call the decision not to publicly expose their bias (even though we all know they are biased), a “scandal.”
A Semafor report published Tuesday claimed that Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked the paper’s editorial board from endorsing a candidate midway through the board’s preparation to endorse.
“I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent,” Garza said in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review on Wednesday. “In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up.” In addition to being the editorials editor, Garza was a member of the paper’s editorial board.
The Washington Post is facing backlash as well as their opinion writers were set to endorse Kamala Harris when Bezo’s decided there would be no more presidential endorsements.
NPR reports “Over 200,000 subscribers flee ‘Washington Post’ after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement,” while their own staff is also throwing a hissy fit over the decision.
The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
Apparently these staff members, and subscribers, forgot they are supposed to report the news, not try to influence their readers one way or another, which in fact, the media has been doing for a very long time. The more they tried to interfere in election choices by advocating for the Democrats, rather than just presenting the news, the lower the confidence levels of the public continued to get.
The numbers for “none at all” meaning those surveyed had absolutely no trust in the media, is higher than those that have trust, and higher than those that have not very much trust.
The correlation is unmistakable. The more the media became advocates for the Democrat party, the further left they became, the less trust Americans have in them.
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