It is rare when someone holding public attention stands up for their views even though they may suffer economic impact. Jim Acosta is one of those people.
The ripple effect of Jeff Bezos’s decision to block The Washington Post from endorsing a presidential candidate continues to reverberate through the newspaper, as a tidal wave of readers cancel their subscriptions and nearly one-third of the Post’s editorial board stepped down in protest. Pulitzer prize winner Ann Telnaes had drawn a cartoon of the paper’s owner kneeling before Donald Trump.
Veteran journalists Robert Greene and Karin Klein announced their resignations at the Los Angeles Times a day after the editorial page editor Mariel Garza left in protest.