Alongside its endorsement of Kamala Harris, the Los Angeles Times editorial board had also planned a multi-part series against Donald Trump before the whole thing was quashed by owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, TheWrap has learned.
According to internal memos viewed by TheWrap, the series, tentatively called “The Case Against Trump,” would have ran throughout this week. The endorsement of Kamala Harris would then have been published on Sunday.
However, Soon-Shiong ordered the cancellation 0f the series and the endorsement without explanation, current and now former staffers have confirmed, setting off a massive crisis for the 142-year-old paper.
For the next two weeks, it’s propaganda, as it’s been for the last three decades, because they do need consent this time. But if Trump wins this one, then those in power won’t need that anymore.
But even when it’s propaganda, it’s strange just watching the effect of rich people’s influence pulling a hundred-million Americans’ opinions toward Trump. It’s like being able to see visible gravity, it seems so obvious when you can see it, but then you realize that those hundred-million people can’t see it or even understand it as it’s pulling them off the edge of a cliff.