PJ Media
Fewer newspapers in the market mean fewer newspapers to offer endorsements. Lots of jobs have vanished. These are dark days in the newspaper industry.
For all the talk from The Washington Post about “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” you know what else gets really dark? Your newsroom if you can’t pay the bills! And that’s been happening to newsrooms all over the country.
But the rest of the explanation is far more interesting: Newspapers need their endorsements to be meaningful because they’re an extension of their reputation. It’s their stamp of approval — their name on the line. For their endorsement to be meaningful, it requires the perception of value.
And the fastest way to devalue your endorsement is to endorse a loser. More
Probably now that they know that Kamala is so far behind it would be hard for the Democrats to cheat enough to pull this one out.
Newspaper histories cannot be erased. We know what they are.
It’s hard for any newspaper trying to keep a straight face, saying: Vote for the dumb whore puppet! And if the dumb whore wins and the world turns on fire, they’ll have to face up to having endorsed her.
They probably don’t want to endorse a moron that would get us into a shooting war with Russia the instant she took office.
Probably the same reason their readership and subscriptions are down. I can think for myself and all they need to do is report the events and I’ll make up my own mind. They are not smarter than me and don’t make my life’s decisions. In other words, “Just shut up and report the facts and events.” You don’t run my life, when you cant run your own. You can’t and don’t influence me. and “You’re not the boss of me!”
I keep forgetting … remind me which primaries Harris/Walz won and by what margins.
John Nolte had a great article yesterday:
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/10/26/nolte-three-reasons-to-cherish-the-washington-posts-latest-meltdown/
“After a decade of telling us Donald Trump is Hitler, the Post announced that Kamala Harris is so awful that the paper would not endorse her over Hitler.”
I get the nostaligia of reading a newspaper. It takes you back in time to a better time, but let’s face it, newspapers today are not what they were 40 – 60 years ago. They are no longer supported by advertising and subscriptions and can be bought for a song and wind up being used as some millionair’s personal “blog”. If you’re sitting there getting youur news from a newspaper (cuz you think it makes you look smart and educated) you might as well be drinking out of the toilet!
I stopped subscribing to the daily paper way back when the opinions went to the front page and the facts went to the opinion page.
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.” ~ Mark Twain
Nothing has changed.
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
Yup.
Yawn…
I gave up on newspapers when Gannet bought them all, started publishing them hundreds of miles away, fired all the conservative editors, and prohibited wrongthink from the denuded comments page.
like SNS posted: remember kiddos Gannett owns 91% or some such shit of ALL newspapers in the USA. media control of one outlet complete … next