Two more LA Times editorial writers quit over blocked support

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

Source: Wrapper

The Los Angeles Times has lost two more longtime editorial writers, the latest in a growing mass exodus protesting newspaper owner Patrick Soon-Shiong’s interference in the paper’s planned support for Kamala Harris, TheWrap reports.

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

Greene has not yet spoken publicly about her departure, but in a statement posted to a private forum that was later shared with TheWrap, Klein outlined her reasons for leaving.

Using Harris’s “we’re not going back” campaign slogan, Klein called Soon-Shiong “chickens” who threw the editorial team “under the bus” and said, in effect, that the decision to withdraw support was itself a kind of support for Harris’ opponent. Donald Trump.

Soon-Shiong, Klein wrote, as owner has “the right to intervene in editorials; this is the only place where he can do it ethically.” But in rejecting that particular editorial, she said he actually created his own. “A wordless, feigned invisibility that unfairly implies that (Harris) has serious flaws that somehow put her on the same level as Donald Trump.”

And the previous resignation of Mariel Garza.

Here’s Patrick Soon-Shiong’s absurd explanation for his bad behavior.

Elon approves.