“[E]ditors nationwide need to wake up to the new reality
and sit out endorsing anyone in the 2020 election.
“If the nation’s newspapers do what they did in 2016 — when only one major newspaper, Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Review-Journal, endorsed then-reality TV star and now President Donald Trump — they risk irreparable harm to not just their bottom lines but to their formerly essential place in voters’ lives.
“If the nation’s newspapers do what they did in 2016 — when only one major newspaper, Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Review-Journal, endorsed then-reality TV star and now President Donald Trump — they risk irreparable harm to not just their bottom lines but to their formerly essential place in voters’ lives.
“Americans of all stripes are now seemingly more convinced
by fact-less memes than by thoroughly researched articles. The media has [sic]
a credibility problem, and that’s what’s truly threatening the very
underpinnings of our democracy.”
—Matt Laslo, reporter and columnist, “The
New York Times presidential endorsement shows why newspapers must end the
practice,” Think, NBC News, Jan. 20, 2020. (Thanks
to alert WORDster Tony Seton)
• Editorial Comment: Must . . . slavishly . . . obey . . .
Times . . .
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