That loud noise you heard a while ago was The Washington Post imploding — on top, of course, of the loud noise you heard the other day when The Los Angeles Times imploded first.
Neither paper will make an endorsement in the 2024 Presidential race, and both papers' editorial boards and newsrooms are in an uproar. Outraged readers are canceling their subscriptions left and right. Are Katharine Graham and Ben Bradlee spinning in their graves? Has the world as we know it just turned upside-down?
It seemed that way when we came across a tweet from Bill Kristol, who offered to publish the already drafted WaPo editorial endorsing Harris, which Jeff Bezos apparently personally canceled, on his conservative site The Bulwark. The sad reality is that both the Post and the LA Times were bought — and, initially, saved — by extremely rich men who are now apparently willing to destroy them to cull favor with a fascist who probably will not be elected President next month.
We have a digital subscription to the Post and are deciding what to do. We're also waiting to see how other papers react to the meltdowns that are happening right now in DC and LA. Meanwhile, subscriptions to The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Boston Globe are distinct possibilities. Both have endorsed Vice President Harris, saying they won't take their marching orders from oligarchs. We cats PURR.
UPDATE: We cats have canceled our Washington Post subscription. Interestingly, the Post's comments were turned off. Also interestingly, our local paper, the Albany Times-Union, endorsed Vice President Harris today. Pretty fearless for a paper that was bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1924, and which railed for years against the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. We cats PURR.
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