Two more LA Times editorial writers quit due to stalled endorsements

While we all wonder if a Trump presidency could mean the end of press freedom and an embrace of fascism in the United States, we are seeing increasingly obvious signs that it is already here.

Source: shell

The Los Angeles Times has lost two more longtime editors, the latest in a growing exodus to protest owner Patrick Soon-Shiong’s interference with the paper’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris, TheWrap can exclusively report.

On Thursday, editor Karin Klein and Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Greene quit; their exits come just a day after editorial writer Mariel Garza resigned in protest on Wednesday.

Greene has yet to speak publicly about his exit, but in a statement posted on a private forum that was later shared with TheWrap, Klein laid out his reasons for quitting.

Channeling Harris’ “we’re not going back” campaign slogan, Klein called Soon-Shiong a “chicken…” who threw the editorial team “under the bus” and essentially argued that the decision to withhold approval of was itself an endorsement of sorts for Harris’s opponent, Donald Trump.

Soon-Shiong, Klein wrote, owns “the right to intervene in the editorials; this is the only place where he can do it ethically.” But by taking down this particular editorial, she said he actually created one of his own. “A wordless, mock-invisible one that unfairly implies that (Harris) has serious flaws that somehow put her on Donald Trump’s level.”

And the earlier resignation of Mariel Garza.

And here is Patrick Soon-Shiong’s absurd rationalization for his bad behavior.

Elon approves.