Muzzled
(Please note this was submitted to letters to the editor of the L.A. Times, Washington Post and New York Times simultaneously)
I know this submission breaks the cardinal rule of sending comments to a single publication only.
Frankly Scarlet I don't give a damn.
Both the L.A. Times and the Washington Post were at the ready to endorse Kamala Harris when the First Amendment dissolved in a sneak preview of the second term of Donald Trump. The owners of both newspapers muzzling those under their control, long witness to the personal and political nightmare that is Mr. Trump.
This feels much like Mr. Putin's Russia. Businessmen protecting their economic future against the potential wrath of Mr. Trump and his avowed campaign of retribution.
If there was any clearer sign of the impending end of democracy as we know it, I beg someone to point it out. When our leading newspapers fail to warn of the consequences to come in another Trump term, when they fail to step into the daylight out of fear and self preservation, when their own editorial boards are silenced, when the public is not given adequate warning in red lights and capital letters, it is indeed a sad and deeply troubling day in the history of the United StatesĀ
Should Mr. Trump triumph this November 5, there should be a scarlet letter of shame attached to both of these "esteemed" publications. Our nation deserved far better from you.
So True. I have felt this way about much of the press (newspapers, television). I don't understand how the media can be intimidated and cowed into submission. It is a sad day for this country. --RE
In the case of LA Times, could it be antisemitic? In either case, it is gutless and sycophantic at base.