A Message from Bari on Election Day
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From the free press. This is honestly, and i'm very wise, once upon a time when newspapers covered both sides of an issue, editorial endorsements may have moved a voter in michigan or persuaded some undecided soul like my mom in pennsylvania.

But those days are long gone, which may explain the astonished outrage this election season when a couple of corporate media papers like the los Angeles times and then the washington post decided not to endorse a candidate. The responses to that were up a pleated carreno tea of the washington post wrote that SHE and her colleagues were betrayed by the lack of endorsement of Harris. Newsroom staffers at the post publicly posted their disagreement.

One wrote that her own parents unsubscribe from the paper. Others trying to stave off the wave of cancellations suggested those angry about the lack of endorsement should cancel their amazon prime account instead as a way of sending a message to their owner, jeff basis. The post has reportedly lost two hundred and fifty thousand digital subscribers, ten percent over this decision.

But the most delicious publication endorsement fight of this cycle happened at the nation magazine. The left of magazine endorsed coale Harris, which apparently outraged the interns who then rode in up that of their own, arguing that the endorsement was a quote, unearned and disappointing step. Given the bite in Harris is administration support for israel.

Why do I sail of this? Because we've received a lot of questions about whether and who we'd be endorsing ing in this election. Given the free press mission of not telling readers and listeners what to think, but in rather giving the audience the information necessary to make their own decisions, we're not going to be endorsing a candidate this year.

We did, however, pull our staff at a recent retreat. We didn't do IT with the expectation, of course, of sharing the results. We did IT on account of a relent lessin curious podcast producer, the executive producer of honestly, who took advantage of the fact that we were all trapped together on a boat on the hudson and river.

But those results seem worth sharing now, partly because they are not results you will find in any other american newsroom, but mostly because were continually told that amErica is divided into reds and blues, into mega and the resistance, into protesters and counter protesters. And well, that's just not been our experience. The staff of the free press is split almost exactly three ways in this election between kala Harris d trump and, well, neither people who are obtaining writing in their preferred candidate or who remain undecided.

Yes, they are still undecided. In other words, our editorial staff is split just like the country that we write about. We also have widely ranging views, not just about the candidates themselves, but also about the stakes and the meaning of this election, something democracy is on the ballot and are profoundly fearful of trump.

Without the guard rails of men like H. R. Mic master and jim mattis. Others are from more sangin, making the case that we endow for years of trump and four years of biden, Harris and the republic survived. My point is that at the free press is okay to be liberal, conservative or politically non binary.

And though IT shouldn't be, having a newsroom that reflects the politics of amErica has become extraordinary unusual at the new york times, my friend at a Robinson used to joke that the only people at the paper who voted for trump were the delivery guys from stat nyland. Like all jokes, IT was an over simplification. They were also the plumbers, the electrics s and the porters at six twenty eighth avenue, new york times headquarters ers.

And it's not just the times, of course, it's the los Angeles times, the washington post CNN. A, B, C. I could go on at N.

P. Rdc headquarters. As ori berliner reported earlier this year in our pages, he found eighty seven registered democrats working in editorial positions, and zero republicans, none.

Indeed, you'd be hard pressed to find a mainstream media outlet outside of rupert murdock's wall street journal that doesn't have a newsroom and often an opinion staff that thinks as one, which is to say, the people whose job IT is, is to tell you about the world in all its complications and contradictions, have the same view about almost every important issue in american life. At the new york times, every last columnist, even those who are supposed to be the conservatives, oppose trumps election at the washington post. Journalist fear over basis is squashing of the Harris endorsement isn't because their independent journalism is being harmed.

It's because, like most of their brothers n in the mainstream media, they think it's imperative for carmella herr's to win. According to the free beacon, during a heated meeting between washington post staff and editorial page editor David shipment, one editor blurted out, one thing that can't happen in this country is for trump to get another four years. But the thing is, half of the country, once donal trump, for another four years, whether he wins or he loses, half of amErica is voting for him.

So isn't IT just a little bit strange that the institutions that talk the most about diversity and inclusion can't stomach anyone whose views are line with half of americans? At the free press, we flip this dynamic on its head. The fundamental value we share here with each other and with our readers and listeners is a commitment to seeking and telling the truth, which allows us to disagree without disrespecting one another.

We share an understanding that the truth isn't something you bring back like a moon rock and put under glass, but rather the best answers you can get under changing circumstances in an ever shifting world, and that those answers are always subject to revision in the face of new information. We share the view that politics need not be a team sport. We share the view that our vocation as journalist is not about ushering readers to a political conclusion, but to tell stories that reflect the complicated nature of issues.

They're so often presented as simple and settled. If we knew in advance who or what was deplorable, we wouldn't need journalism at all. Most importantly, all of us share of you that there is not an enemy within among our fellow americans, nor do we believe in referring to any of our fellow citizens as a garbage.

We're also grateful, grateful for our privilege, a privilege to live in a free country. My colleague, ti a lukie va, was born in russia. He became an american citizen just a few months ago and will vote this year in her first free and fair election.

Here's what SHE recently wrote. When I step into the voting booth, i'll think about how lucky I am to be here, where my vote is not just an act of resistance, but a genuine opportunity to make a choice. We know that our readers and our listeners and our viewers don't come to the free press to be told what to think you're here because, like us, you're of independent mind and spirit or proud of that fact.

And we owe IT to you as much as to ourselves to try with all of our might to restore a culture. We're arguing, debating, persuading and disagreeing, as opposed to damming and silencing or the norm. If we can't sit next to colleagues who are voting differently, how can we sit next to them in our dining room tables or on the subway or on the jury? I can think of nothing more meaningful and important than building a publication in a community that inspires to that. There is nothing more exhilarating than discovering, not only in our newsroom, but also in the world of the free press, that this is still a country of free people.

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