The head of the Los Angeles Times editorial board quit Wednesday after the paper declined to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.
Editorials editor Mariel Garza resigned in protest from the paper, claiming that she was blocked by the paper’s ownership from endorsing Harris. The paper had endorsed every Democratic presidential candidate since 2008.
“I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent,” Mariel Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review. “In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up.”
“I didn’t think we were going to change our readers’ minds—our readers, for the most part, are Harris supporters,” Garza added. “We’re a very liberal paper. I didn’t think we were going to change the outcome of the election in California.”
Garza said that she was…
