The ADL is also in the Dem inner circle, and they have pushed for the full backing of the Israeli government. They criticized Schumer when he called out Netanyahu.

This criticism from Weingarten is a sign of change, of pushing the ADL aside.

Just a moment...

(www.jns.org)

A year ago I said moving Biden on Israel required changing the influence of the ADL on Dems.

Today Randi Weingarten, part of the D institutional inner circle, criticized the ADL.

Vote for Harris. Policy on Israel/Gaza is changing and she will change it.

"This is Elon Musk, and the person responsible for enforcing federal laws against him is Attorney General Merrick Garland..." Elie Mystal in the Nation today.

I agree with Elie on much of this.

But indicting Musk should be a priority. It **would** matter.

Thread.

Why didn't the LA Times endorse someone?
Why is the Washington Post thinking about not endorsing?
Surprise! It's the **ownership** of both papers making that decision.

Media ownership matters. A lot!
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https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/nx-s1-5163293/la-times-editor-resigns-trump-msnbc-washington-post

And that is the real problem at the Times. They’ve decided to chase a rich audience for short term profit at the expense of democracy and catastrophic longterm threats to themselves.

The NYT is run by MBA culture. And has been for two generations.
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Sulzberger Jr was quoted as saying he didn’t like journalism but he did like marketing and business.

It wasn’t a small feat, making the Times profitable while all other US papers died. It just wasn’t mainly about journalism skills. 2/3

“A nepo baby of a nepo baby.”
(AG Sulzberger, NYT CEO.)
Right. Sulzberger isn’t good at his job and doesn’t have the vision to fix NYT.

But AG Sulzberger’s dad did have skills; he was a marketer, who led the Times through the collapse of US news. Stay with me here …
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