Time to clean house at The Post

This headline is how The Post's editors chose to cover Trump's horrendous appearance at the NABJ.

So wrong. This is not on her. It's on Trump and The Post. She faces only racism and misogyny. The Post's editors faced a test of how they would deal with that. They failed.

And they failed again, rewriting the headline in an attempt to say less: to say nothing at all, as if that would be safe.

Trump made a racist attack on Harris. Say it.

The Post is broken. The paper's headline yesterday is so abhorrent that it should lead to editors losing jobs. This infamous 2020 headline in the Inquirer led to its editor losing his job.

The Post is now run by two agents of Murdoch, Will Lewis and Matt Murray. They are responsible for this. They should be held accountable. Two former No. 2 editors at the Post--one a Black man, one Latino--could have been made editor. Instead, Bezos installed a Murdochian who hired a Murdochian.

DEI matters. If enough people of color were in high-ranking jobs at The Post--and were not intimidated by Will Lewis and his newsroom bullying--wiser heads would have prevailed. Jeff Bezos , you need to act. Will Lewis is now under criminal investigation. He is failing you and us.

This cannot wait until the election. Election coverage matters now more than ever. Just as Kamala Harris can step in and run for President, so can The Post fire Lewis and Murray and hire, say, Kevin Merida , whose Twitter profile notes he is a free agent.

Merida could be editor and I've suggested before that Craig Forman , former CEO of McClatchy, could step in as publisher. There are many talented editors and business executives available. The Post is too important to let flail and founder (as The Times also sinks). Do something.

And, no, this is not just one headline It is overarching editorial failure. On this same story, here is another headline The Post ran. "Tussle." "Raucous." No, racist. If the editor and publisher do not know or cannot bear to tell the truth, they need to go. This is not an entertainment story. It is the essence of the United States. My kindest interpretation is that these British news executives don't know. More likely and worse, they choose not to. In either case, they need to go.

And neither is this just The Post. Yesterday, I curated a small sample of disgust and anger with The Times. Most incumbent, mass media are broken. They are failing us at this crucial moment. Note well that when the right criticizes the press, they want to destroy it. When the left does, we want to fix it.