A woman walks by the Above the Fold newsstand in Los Angeles. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
THE RECENT JUNE PRIMARY DOUBLED as an unlikely Southern California media milestone: It was the first modern election in which the Los Angeles Times provided no endorsements on the local candidates and measures on the ballot.
The death of the paper’s once-vaunted endorsements received little in the way of public notice, but the disappearance has been acutely felt — and bemoaned — around town. The impact of any one endorsement is certainly debatable, but the editorial board carried particular weight in down-ballot races where voters tend to know little, if anything, about the candidates.
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