LA Times owner has apparently barred his journalists from covering the scandal and uproar he caused by suppressing a Harris editorial page endorsement.
Big Journalism's bosses are killing what's left of the craft's integrity. https://www.status.news/p/los-angeles-times-2024-endorsement
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@dangillmor News agencies should not have endorsements for any candidate, that is contrary to what journalistic integrity stands for.
The owner made the right choice.
@freemo @dangillmor Really? Newspapers and media orgs have been making recommendations since the Federalist Papers in the late 1700s.
When did this definition of “journalistic integrity” come in, and who, exactly, gets to define what it is?
For at least a century. One such example is the 1923 ethical rules adopted by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Though the concept, perhaps not codified, goes back much farther than that.
@freemo @dave @dangillmor They just forgot to tell every newspaper in the country?
No, newspapers that didnt follow the ethics were, at the time, called "yellow rags" and generally treated by the general public as disreputable. Obviously in modern times journalistic integrity is at an all time low, so this sort of deplorable behavior is sadly the norm now.
Remember these rules were established by the society most journalists were a part of, so it was the consensus ethically.
@freemo @dave @dangillmor But the guy who own the LAT isn't motivated by ethics, just not wanting to endorse Harris. It's still a purely political move.
@maccruiskeen @freemo @dave @dangillmor Without saying so or endorsing the orange stain. Coward!
I have made who I endorse quite clear on my feed many many times, and it is neither Trump nor Harris.
