A decision by the owner of the Los Angeles Times not to endorse in the 2024 presidential race — after the paper’s editorial board proposed backing Kamala Harris — has created a tempest, prompting three members of the board to resign and provoking thousands of readers to cancel their subscriptions. Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong said that his decision not to offer readers a recommendation would be less divisive in a tumultuous election year. “I have no regrets whatsoever. In fact, I think it was exactly the right decision,” he said in an interview with The Times on Friday afternoon. “The process was [to decide]: how do we actually best inform our readers? And there could be nobody better than us who try to sift the facts from fiction” while leaving it to readers to make their own final decision.
Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong said that his decision not to offer readers a recommendation would be less divisive in a tumultuous election year.
“I have no regrets whatsoever. In fact, I think it was exactly the right decision,” he said in an interview with The Times on Friday afternoon. “The process was [to decide]: how do we actually best inform our readers? And there could be nobody better than us who try to sift the facts from fiction” while leaving it to readers to make their own final decision.
据报道，社论委员会本来计划支持卡马拉·哈里斯，但报纸的所有者、企业家帕特里克·孙翔（Patrick Soon-Shiong）叫停了这一背书。这与2020年他阻止该报纸初选支持伊丽莎白·沃伦的情况类似。
洛杉矶时报历史上自1884年以来大多会进行政治背书，除了一些因政策变动或所有权影响而例外的年份。
这次决定突显了在重要选举来临之际，主要媒体之间关于编辑独立性和所有者影响的紧张关系。
此次事件也反映出在一些媒体中，所有者有时会直接影响社论立场，有时甚至违背新闻传统。
"有时甚至违背新闻传统" 什么是新闻传统？我以为新闻的传统，应该是报道发掘，验证，报道事实.