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Washington on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

The decisions by Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong to spike endorsements of Kamala Harris have created an uproar inside The Washington Post and LA Times, respectively. Is this a genuine gripe, an assault on democracy, or simply the latest grievance consuming a legacy media industry mad as hell and unwilling to take it any longer?

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In each case, the decision was made by the respective billionaire owners of the newspapers, Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong, which has led to broad suspicion that they were preemptively capitulating to Trump in order to protect their own personal or business interests. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
October 26, 2024

On Thursday night, less than 300 hours before the polls were set to close on this historic, highly consequential, infinitesimally close presidential election, Charlamagne tha God was on CNN with Anderson Cooper, castigating the host and his network for not spending more time “talking about Donald Trump being a fascist.” Taken aback, Cooper countered that he and CNN covered Trump’s various anti-democratic threats every night. “I don’t feel like you have enough conversations about it,” Charlamagne protested. “I feel like I’ve heard more on this network about ‘Is Kamala Harris Black?’ than I do about Donald Trump being a fascist.”