The LA Times announced it would not publish an editorial endorsing any candidate for President. In response, Mariel Garza, the editor of the newspaper's editorial page, promptly resigned in protest, stating:

"The non-endorsement undermines the integrity of the editorial board and every single endorsement we make, down to school board races. People will justifiably wonder if each endorsement was a decision made by a group of journalists after extensive research and discussion, or through decree by the owner."

That owner is Patrick Soon-Shiong, a surgeon / investor / businessman worth about $6 billion according to Wikipedia.

He's too rich to care if the LA Times goes out of businesss if subscribers abandon the paper in protest so it's hard to imagine any financial pressure that could be applied to alter this kind of thinking. Clearly shame doesn't apply if you cannot be persuaded to make a stand with a contrast as start as Harris versus Trump.

This is a fascinating illustration of the illusion that money buys independence and freedom. The illusion that money gives you lattitude to speak truth to power and not worry about your day to day existance being at risk. Given the behavior of many of America's multi-millionaires and billionaires, it seems a significant fraction haven't become more FREE with their limitless money. Instead, they've become more psychologically dependent upon it and more fearful of losing ANY of it, even if losing 99% of it still leaves them a multi-millionaire.

People like this are not hooked up right. Yet people like this are in control of the majority of media and "social network" platforms that are consistently warping virtually all information we take in to understand "reality." Why anyone in "steerage" (anyone worth less than a mere $10 million) would be allowing people this disconnected from reality to affect their positions is utterly baffling.


WTH