Two more LA Times editors resign

Veteran Los Angeles Times Employees Robert Greene and Karin Klein resigned from the newspaper following its decision not to endorse a presidential candidate in the 2024 race.

Greene and Klein’s resignations came just a day after former Times editorial editor Mariel Garza left the paper in protest after its decision not to endorse a candidate was made public.

heron he told the Columbia Journalism Review that she “resigns because I want to make it clear that I do not agree with us remaining silent. In dangerous times, honest people must stand up. “That’s how I stand.”

Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Timesinformed the editorial board earlier this month that the publication would not endorse the presidential race. He Times has endorsed a candidate in every cycle since 2008. According to C.J.R.the editorial board planned to endorse Kamala Harris.

In his resignation letter, according to C.J.R.Garza wrote that while she had told herself that “presidential endorsements don’t really matter,” the “reality hit me like cold water on Tuesday when news spread about the decision not to endorse without so much as a comment from management LAT. and donald trump turned it into an anti-Harris attack.”

after the news On Tuesday, which the Times would not endorse, the Trump campaign sent an email calling the decision the “final blow to Harris-Walz.” “Even her fellow Californians know she is unfit for the job,” Trump’s campaign wrote.

Garza wrote that the decision not to endorse “makes us look like cowards and hypocrites, maybe even a little sexist and racist. How could we spend eight years railing against Trump and the danger his leadership poses to the country and then not endorse the perfectly decent Democratic challenger whom we previously endorsed for the US Senate?

The number of subscriptions to the LA Times is said to have suffered since the newspaper did not receive its support, according to a report from Semafor. Media reported that LA Times cancellations doubled after the news broke, with nearly 400 subscribers citing “editorial content” as the reason.

In a post on X on Thursday, Mark Hamill said he also dropped his subscription to the newspaper.

He posted: “I canceled our subscription to the LA Times because I want to make it clear that I do not agree with them remaining silent. In dangerous times, honest people must stand up. This is the only way to show that I am standing.”

There has been a wave of unsubstantiated rumors online that the Washington Post also plans to endorse any candidate.

Election Day on November 5th.