Mariel Garza resigned as editorials editor of
the Los Angeles Times last week because the paper blocked the planned endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, according to Columbia Journalism Review (CJR).
“I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent,” Garza told CJR. “In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is
how I’m standing up.”
The board had planned to endorse Harris. But Patrick Soon-Shiong informed the paper’s editorial board on October 11 that the Times
would not be making an endorsement for president.
Soon-Shiong wrote that the editorial board “chose to remain silent” after being provided “the opportunity to draft a
factual analysis of the candidates’ policies and positions, according to The Washington Post.
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