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.

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    27 days ago

    You’d think that would be the problem, but the New York Times was run by a Jewish man during the Holocaust who buried the story to curry favor with the powers that be. He felt that at his level of capital, he’d be unlikely to suffer the way that German Jews were, even when Naziism became popular here, and therefore decided that covering up genocide was the safer bet for him politically and financially.

    When it comes to this kind of shit, political affiliation is merely a symptom of the disease: being a fucking asshole. It turns out that the most important thing to the American media is money and power. Fuck the people.

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      27 days ago

      Imagine a world where everyone have the class solidarity that the bourgeois have.

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        26 days ago

        I know one thing: if we could coordinate ourselves even a little, I’d finally know what “billionaire” tastes like