“Voters decide elections. Now’s the time to focus newspapers’
full energy and limited resources on providing every voter with the information
that’s essential to making informed decisions. We can’t do that if millions of
voters won’t ever read, let alone trust, the solid journalism flowing from the
fingers of the underpaid and overly abused reporters in the field. We certainly
can't do that if they won't read and won’t trust fact-based reporting . . . .”
—Matt
Laslo, reporter and blogger, “The
New York Times presidential endorsement shows why newspapers must end the
practice,” Think, NBC News, Jan. 20, 2020.
• Editorial Comment: We don’t need no stinkin’ facts.
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