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.
1. I understood that their is a difference between the ‚journalistic‘ section of a newspaper and the ‚editorial page‘/‚opinion‘ part
2. As far as I understand it the problem described is not whether the newspaper should or should not endorse a candidate, but that it didn’t rrport on its own woes. And that the publication of the conflict between owner and editor was suppressed
Or did I get that wrong?
I think there are many issues at play here, some of which i dont have enough info to speculate on, others I probably do.
A news paper can have an "editorial" section with opinions of course, the key being that it doesnt favor one narrative or set of opinions over another. The proper news section of course is held to a higher standard and shouldnt express opinion of the journalist at all, an the journalist themselves need to be impartial.
