Posted on 10/30/2024 8:14:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Not me.
Heaven forbid if newspapers just reported, and let their readers decide.
Y'know, because if both papers had endorsed Harris, that wouldn't have been lockstep or partisan in any way.
Nobody cares who a newspaper or anyone else endorses.
Their Focus Groups were probably the realities that forced this huge change.
Newspapers have to sell a lot of ads on a daily basis to even pay a small % of the costs of a big newspaper.
Subscriptions with most fish wraps has severely dropped as an economic factor!
Now, they must depend/exist on $’s generated by their sold ads
Tv ads can be bought and targeted to potential users.
Good luck trying to sell products/services to people who can barely read and talk in English vid newspaper ads.
Many if not most people with any reading skills don’t need high priced writers telling US how to think and vote.
I don’t understand what is supposed to be so “dangerous” about Trump.
Oh wait…he wants to expose the Deep State and the democrats cheating.
The “danger” is to the commies on the left. I’m good with that.
>Subscriptions with most fish wraps has severely dropped as an economic factor!
You know what really started the process on the ongoing death of the print daily?
Craigslist
All those misc. ads ran to a lot of pages, brought in revenue, and people bought the paper for them, so it drove revenue on the purchasing side, too.
Gone nearly overnight.
What we are seeing today is the long drawn out death throes of dinosaurs. Plus people still subsidize them for the residual propaganda value.
Their only hope for survival is a Trump presidency. They can’t keep cheerleading and sell newspapers.
If they thought Kamala would win, they would have endorsed her.
These smart and connected men think that they will need to work with Trump soon.
The REAL reason? A total lack of diversity.
What?
Trust me, when 14% of the country is black, there's blacks in these newsrooms. When 10% of the country is gay, there's more than 10% gays in these newsrooms.
When half the country's supporting President Trump - THERE IS NOT ONE - NOT ONE - TRUMP SUPPORTER WORKING IN EITHER THE LA TIMES OR THE WASHINGTON POST NEWSROOMS.
And half the people support Kamala in the country? That would be close to 100% of 'journalists' in either of these 'newsrooms'. (with a few holdout for support for more extreme left wing candidates.)
Propaganda rooms is more like it...
It’s an interesting decision.
Michael Jordan said that that Republicans buy tennis shoes also. Do Republicans buy the Washington Post or LA Times? I think not.
Are the papers angling for some credibility somewhere, somehow, someway? Perhaps they are concerned that Harris will get elected and screw-up big time and these papers can say “don’t blame us.” Perhaps they think a major news re-alignment will follow Trump’s victory. Perhaps in upcoming years 60% of the public will subscribe to Truth Social.
“You know what really started the process on the ongoing death of the print daily?”
Craigslist
All those misc. ads ran to a lot of pages, brought in revenue, and people bought the paper for them, so it drove revenue on the purchasing side, too.
Gone nearly overnight.
What we are seeing today is the long drawn out death throes of dinosaurs. Plus people still subsidize them for the residual propaganda value.
However, our son/daughters and adult grandkids use Craig’s list daily.
A grandson is a prime example of what you point out. He recently got a good degree and got a good job. He traded his old junker for a new living room/bed room sets and bought a new pickup diesel and brought his “new” furniture to keep in his parents garage until he got a good rental to live in.
Basically everything purchase was a Craig’s list purchase rode home in the back of his new pickup,
He sold most of his college stuff on Craig’s list.
Did famous “conservative” Jennifer Rubin accept her own advice given to the LA Times staff? I’m betting not.
The legacy media is dying and the network media is thriving.
I would rather have reporting.
Watch the Bogart film “Deadline USA” especially Jim Backus’s barroom speech.
Ya gotta wonder why they did this? Do they know something that we don’t? Will the endorsement of Harris be seen as a great negative under a Trump presidency?
Political parties\factions used to sponsor their own newspapers. Best examples Thomas Jefferson sponsored Phillip Freneau (Also gave him a clerk’s job at the State Department!) and his National Gazette. It was a strong critic of George Washington and a proponent of Jeffersonian policies - a Republican newspaper (Republican as defined back then!). Jefferson’s rival Alexander Hamilton sponsored the New York Evening Post and brought in William Coleman as its editor. It supported the Federalist (Washington administration) position.
There are other examples from US history.
I see nothing wrong with partisan media as long as the identify themselves as such. The hypocrisy comes in claiming to be non-partisan. Still, I don’t want the government to tell me who is nonpartisan and who isn’t or who is factual and who isn’t! I can do that!
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