DECRYPTION – For the first time since 1976, the daily refrains from calling for a vote for a presidential candidate. THE Los Angeles Times is also shaken after its shareholder refused to allow his newspaper to take sides.
The editorial had been ready for several weeks. As for every presidential election since 1976, the opinion department of Washington Post was preparing to support one of the two candidates for the White House. Without any surprise for a daily which railed against the Trump Administration, which earned it several Pulitzer Prizes, the editorialists decided to call on their readers to vote for Democrat Kamala Harris. But twist of theatre. On Friday, the media’s general management announced that the venerable daily would refrain from taking a position. « We are aware that this decision will be seen as implicit support for one of the candidates, or the rejection of another, or as an avoidance of our responsibilities »wrote William Lewis. The facts proved him right.
A newspaper’s position for this or that candidate has long had no influence on voters. But this refusal, by only eleven…
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