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As L.A. Times and Washington Post Kill Presidential Endorsements, Do Editorial Pages Still Matter?


Amidst the 2024 election chaos, major newspapers are declining to endorse

“Our job at The Washington Post is to provide through the newsroom nonpartisan news for all Americans, and thought-provoking, reported views from our opinion team to help our readers make up their own minds,” wrote William Lewis, the paper’s publisher and CEO. This is a precarious moment for news organizations across the board — even before one considers the mitigating factor of what a Donald Trump restoration, with a vengeance-happy leader in control of the federal government, might mean for papers and for their parent companies. And in 2020, the New York Times — in the crowded Democratic primary, a race where the nation’s standard-bearing mainstream newspaper was poised to make an impact — dithered, endorsing two candidates, both of whom lost to Joe Biden.

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