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Media CEOs Weigh In On Washington Post And LA Times Non-Endorsements Of Kamala Harris, AI And Covering Trump 2.0
The CEOs of Thomson Reuters and Dow Jones weighed in on the Washington Post and LA Times declining to endorse a presidential candidate.
In a wide-ranging discussion Wednesday about the unsettled state of journalism, two media CEOs weighed in on covering Donald Trump and the decision by the Washington Post and LA Times to not endorse a presidential candidate. Given that he presided over the 1929 stock market crash and the start of the Great Depression, Latour quipped, “we learned a lesson.” While “memories are short” and both organizations can rebound, he added, it was “hard to miss was how subscribers responded. Without calling out any individual outlets by name, he made the case for a new tack by the mainstream press, which proved to be far less influential than podcasts, YouTubers and social media influencer on the election outcome.
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