There is something very serious and impressive about a news outlet calling a meeting of the editorial board and going through hours of deliberation about endorsing a political candidate.
Back in the good old days when a reporter and / or his city editor would think nothing of giving their lives to protect the integrity of a story, the responsibility of endorsing a politician weighed heavily on a newspaper.
But nowadays in the madness of proliferating fake news, there is a plethora of really weird stuff going on.
I mean... You just can't make this stink up ! It just intrudes. And we can't avoid the malodorous nature of it.
The fabled Los Angeles Times, once journalism's faultless Prince Gallant of muckrakers and government- replacers, has hoisted an unbelievable Gonfalon for editorial duplicity and hypocrisy..
The LATimes publishes-- as we can understand---two editions simultaneously. One is totally a Spanish-language edition and the other is all in English. (The Miami Herald which is considered an international newspaper, has done this for the past 50 years or so )
On Thursday, November 1, Spanish-language readers were treated to an enthusiastic endorsement of three Latino candidates .
And in the English edition the LATimes editorial board stringly endorsed the three white candidates opposing the three Hispanic politicians.
We bring you this bare-bones report to undergird all the claims and complaints from here to the nation's Capital and back for lo these many months about journalistic deceit.
And it isn't just proof of "fake news" or "Hybrid endorsement".
It is evidence that we have missed something.
It's possible these craven numbskulls do not know what they are doing OR how to do it.
We refer you to Breitbart.com for further development of this mordant morsel
Cut and Paste:
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/11/01/l-a-times-endorses-3-white-candidates-in-english-and-their-latino-rivals-in-spanish/
Thursday, November 01, 2018
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