Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon highlights bad news for the legacy media.
Last week a bunch of journalists threw public tantrums after they were barred from endorsing Kamala Harris for president. Some of them quit their jobs in protest. The performative outrage continued this week as three Washington Post employees (that no one has ever heard of) announced their resignations while dozens of other journalists ranted self-righteously on social media.
Michele Norris, an opinion columnist for the Post, announced her resignation on Sunday. As self-important journalists are wont to do, she posted a lengthy statement explaining the moral justification for her outrage. Norris blasted the Post‘s decision to refrain from endorsing a presidential candidate in 2024 (and beyond) a “terrible mistake.” She was “deeply disappointed” that the paper had declined to publish an endorsement that would have provided readers with “guidance based on muscular independent analysis.” Norris previously worked at NPR. Her husband, Comcast executive Broderick Johnson, served as cabinet secretary under former President Barack Obama.
Two relatively obscure members of the Post editorial board, Molly Roberts and David Hoffman, quit their jobs on Monday, bringing the total number of resignations to four. Robert Kagan, the paper’s editor at large, resigned on Friday shortly after publisher Will Lewis announced the decision to withhold a presidential endorsement. Kagan is the husband of Victoria Nuland, a former Biden administration official who hosted a fundraiser for Harris last month.
Roberts and Hoffman were among the 20 opinion columnists at the Post who signed their names to an angsty statement on Friday that condemned the endorsement decision as “an abandonment of the fundamental editorial convictions of the newspaper that we love.” Endorsements were crucial, the columnists argued, because they provide “guidance to readers” and allow journalists to make “a statement of core beliefs,” especially in this election when “one candidate is advocating positions that directly threaten freedom of the press and the values of the Constitution.”
