For Some Newspapers, Endorsing Clinton Means Losing Subscribers

The New York Times ^ | September 28, 2016 | Sydney Ember

[Trump20162020]

The subscription cancellations were coming every 10 minutes. Angry readers have been calling in droves. One caller issued a death threat.

“We’re feeling the weight of our history,” Phil Boas, the editorial page editor of The Arizona Republic, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. Until it endorsed Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, the newspaper, founded in 1890, had never endorsed a Democrat over a Republican for president.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, which endorsed Mrs. Clinton last week, put it particularly bluntly: “Trump is a clear and present danger to our country.”

For some readers, however, the endorsements proved a step too far. “Certainly, we’ve paid a price for our presidential recommendation,” Mike Wilson, the editor of The Dallas Morning News, told Poynter this month.

Mr. Boas of The Arizona Republic said he expected “a lot of cancellations,” pointing to cancellations at The Cincinnati Enquirer, which like The Republic, is owned by Gannett.

[Theodore R.]

Much of the items in the coupon section are not what one would normally buy any way.

[SaveFerris]

The local McClatchy rag was begging people to take their newspapers - 18 years ago, LOL.

I told them no way. And they built a huge multi-story new building to house the printing presses.

I’ll enjoy when they finally give up and sell the building for 30 cents on the dollar.

[SaveFerris]

Well, hey, it's not like the Bushes support Hillary and call her sister, remained quiet during nearly 8 years of Obama destroying America and do photo ops with them ..... oh, wait ....