In the past, presidential notes in newspapers were newsworthy. Now they only make news when they don’t happen. Journalists and the left alike automatically assume that newspapers will support Democrats, just as they do the other 364 days of the year.

But fast forward to the 2024 presidential election, where we experience a real-time fact-check of the news media’s neutrality and see how the press fails colossally.

Liberal staffers at the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post saw their plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president canceled, and the uproar that followed was as predictable as their usual list of endorsements. Of course they are angry. They’ve spent years pretending that Donald Trump is evil incarnate, but even the guys who write their checks don’t believe them.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, owns The Post. He wrote a piece for the newspaper which explains how journalism has lost its credibility and, “Most people believe the media is biased.” (Duh.) He admitted part of the problem, noting, “It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing decline in credibility.” But he didn’t. He added that withdrawing the statements of support is “a meaningful step in the right direction.”

Bezos probably won’t win many media friends by saying, “Lack of credibility is not unique to The Post. Our brother newspapers have the same problem.” Adding, “The Washington Post and the New York Times win awards, but increasingly we only talk to a certain elite.”

Journalists think their bosses may be “silent for Trump” because they believe he will win. Journalists are terrified that the bosses are right. (Getty Images)

That approval boycott is contagious. USA Today simply did the unthinkable and embraced it. A spokesperson for the newspaper reportedly told the Daily Beast that the paper will provide readers with “the facts that matter and the trusted information they need to make informed decisions.” The Tampa Times also participated. The era in which newspapers openly expressed their prejudices may be coming to an end before our eyes.

Here are three more reasons for the left-wing media freak:

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Giving in to Trump

Journalists at both papers threw a collective tantrum over the canceled endorsements, and others in their fields were there to support them. NPR’s David Folkenflik wondered if news outlets are “pulling punches to appease Trump?” MSNBC Opinion Editor Jarvis DeBerry stated, “The wealthy owners of The Washington Post and LA Times just capitulated to Trump.” Vanity Fair warned that billionaires “feared retaliation from Donald Trump.” And Slate paraphrased the Post’s slogan: “Democracy’s Death in Darkness.”

Brian Stelter, CNN’s reliable Trump hater, wrote in a special Reliable Sources newsletter: “The appearance of pandering to Trump is causing real and lasting damage to any business not identified as pro-Trump.” Giving in to Trump means not fully supporting his opponent.

Journalists think their bosses may be “silent for Trump” because they believe he will win. Newsies are terrified that the bosses are right.

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Go position

Because the Post is based in the nation’s capital, there was more media panic over that decision. Current and former Post employees lined up to defend their open support of Democrats — as they always do. (They supported every Democratic presidential candidate through the 1980s.)

Former editor-in-chief Marty Baron labeled the newspaper’s decision as “cowardice, a moment of darkness that will leave democracy as a victim.” Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss, editor-in-chief of the Post, called the move “despicable.” He added: “This is not an act of benevolent neutrality, but of cowardice in the face of the greatest challenge to democracy in our post-World War II lives.”

Writers on op-ed pages expressed their fears under the headline: “The newspaper’s refusal to endorse a presidential candidate is a mistake.” Eighteen Post columnists gave a generic response, saying the move represents “an abandonment of the fundamental editorial beliefs of the newspaper we love.” It was the kind of milquetoast wording guaranteed to protect their hefty paychecks. (Three outraged Post staffers actually resigned.)

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The posties all fantasize that they are Woodward and Bernstein still fighting the evil Nixon presidency. In reality, they are a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and have hidden President Biden’s obvious cognitive problems until he was destroyed in the presidential debate. They don’t aspire to be journalists. They want to hurt Republicans.

And of course, de facto Watergate duo Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein called the publisher’s action “disappointing” and said it “ignores the overwhelming evidence from the Washington Post about the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy.”

That threat to “democracy” is a common media and far-left lie from media panicking that their endorsed candidate might not win. What really scares Posties is a threat that Democrats could lose.

The disturbing Hollywood

Naturally, celebrities were also confused: they complained or even canceled their subscriptions. Because one of the two largest left-wing newspapers in the US wasn’t far enough left for them. And that upsets journalists even more, because the far left is their real audience.

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The liberal celebrities calling on subscribers to unsubscribe, or just whining about the lack of messages of support, would be familiar to anyone who follows social media. Actors Henry “the Fonz” Winkler, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Cryer, author Stephen King, New York Daily News sports columnist Mike Lupica and many more. Former Obama and Biden adviser Susan Rice complained on

Critics and competitors of the newspapers alike had the last laugh. Conservatives mocked the far left’s purity test requiring them to cancel subscriptions, while The Atlantic implored, “Don’t cancel The Washington Post. Cancel Amazon Prime.”

The New York Times reminded readers why it remains the most far-left newspaper in America by endorsing Harris, “The Only Patriotic Choice for President.” The paper actively hates patriotism, except when staffers think it might convince a few rubes to vote their way.

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In reality, journalists don’t care what readers think. News workers gave up pretending to be impartial decades ago, even before Gen Z activists invaded their organizations.

The entire episode will have journalists blaming someone if Trump wins re-election. They will never accept that decades of bias have completely undermined their influence. And that happened long before their publishers fled from Harris faster than rats leaving a sinking ship.

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