Los Angeles Times Editorials Editor Resigns Over Owner’s Decision Not To Endorse In Presidential Race

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UPDATED, with comment from Times’ owner: The editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times has resigned after the owner of the publication’s owner refused to allow an endorsement in the presidential race.

Mariel Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review that she is “resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent.

In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up.” Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Times, informed the editorial board earlier this month that the publication would be making no endorsement in the presidential race.

The Times has endorsed each cycle since 2008. According to CJR, the editorial board planned to endorse Kamala Harris. In her resignation letter, per CJR, Garza wrote that while she had told herself “presidential endorsements don’t really matter,” the “reality bit me like cold water on Tuesday when the news rippled out about the decision not to endorse without so much as a comment from LAT management, and Donald Trump turned it into an anti-Harris rip.” After the news on Tuesday that the Times would not be endorsing, the Trump campaign sent out an email calling the decision the “latest blow to Harris-Walz.” “Even her fellow Californians know she’s not up for the job,” the Trump campaign wrote.