First came the internal freakout when the Los Angeles Times decided not to endorse their home-state Democrat Kamala Harris. Now The Washington Post has followed suit.
Publisher Will Lewis wrote a memo announcing: “The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.”
Near the end, Lewis added:
Our job at The Washington Post is to provide through the newsroom nonpartisan news for all Americans, and thought-provoking, reported views from our opinion team to help our readers make up their own minds.
Most of all, our job as the newspaper of the capital city of the most important country in the world is to be independent.
This is both mysterious and hilarious. It’s not like anyone imagines that The Post is truly an “independent” newspaper, starting with the blatantly anti-Trump motto “Democracy Dies In Darkness” that they posted after Trump won in 2016. Its subscribers are overwhelmingly Democrats and the federal establishment.
It’s hilarious because the leftists are so upset, as if the Post has succumbed to the darkness of dictatorship. Folkenflik quoted former top editor Martin Baron, who once bizarrely claimed “we’re not at war [with Trump], we’re at work”: