Posted on 11/16/2016 6:59:09 AM PST by grundle
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has received fewer endorsements from the editorial boards of the nation's largest newspapers than any major-party presidential candidate in history.
Among the top 100 largest newspapers in America, just two — the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville — endorsed Trump. The Review-Journal is owned by Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate who has spent millions trying to elect Trump.
"Donald Trump, despite all of his faults, is best suited to blow up the inbred corruption of the Washington-New York elites," the Times-Union wrote in a Sunday editorial.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has received endorsements from 57 newspaper editorial boards across the country, including papers such as the Dallas Morning News, the Arizona Republic and the San Diego Union-Tribune, conservative bastions that have almost always backed Republicans.
Four newspapers have taken the unusual step of explicitly advising readers to vote against Trump, even if they cannot bring themselves to recommend Clinton.
Trump's "reckless ignorance is more informed by disturbing Internet conspiracy theories than evidence, wisdom or reason," the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote this weekend. Clinton "suffers from an inflated sense of entitlement and a well-earned lack of trust."
But, the paper concluded: "Job One: Reject Trump."
USA Today, the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram and Salt Lake City's Deseret News all advised votes against the Republican presidential nominee.
The rejection of Trump is even more lopsided than the 1972 presidential contest, when the vast majority of papers backed Richard Nixon's reelection bid. Only 7 percent of papers that endorsed that year picked George McGovern, the Democratic nominee. This year, only 3 percent of papers are backing Trump.
Even Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson has had more success with editorial boards than Trump. This weekend, the Charleston Post & Courier became the fourth paper to back Johnson.
"No, Mr. Johnson won’t win the White House Tuesday. But if he gains a substantial vote total, that could help spark the liberation of our politics from the two-party monopoly now failing Americans," the paper wrote.
And 31 had nothing to say?
I guess that settles it. The smart people have spoken: We need to overturn the results of November 8.
That would because the MSM is a cabal of democrat boot lickers.
And this is why Trump got elected.
Nothing new here.
The media’s lack of political power and influence is exposed.
Looks like a compromise to me!
The left wants POTUS selected by popular vote; the right wants the electoral college.
So, split it down the “middle” - award POTUS to the vote of the newspapers.
Why didn’t our framer’s think of that!!
Didn’t do her much good, did it?
I thought bird cage liner endorsements were useless. In all but one case (Jacksonville) they are. I appreciate Adelson and the Las Vegas RJ endorsing Trump, but this area is too far gone.
The Arizona Republic WAS owned by Marilyn Tucker Quayles’ family, but not anymore. And it hasn’t been Conservative for a long time. The pundits have deluded themselves for a long time, thinking that any Conservative institution would endorse Hillary. He who laughs last, laughs best.
I’ve been tempted to berate my local newspaper (Gatehouse or whatever it’s called now) over their horribly biased anti-Trump coverage, but then I though let’s just wait and see. And despite their printing every story by the AP, WaPo, and idiots like Kathleen Parker - Trump carried this red IL county by a 55% margin.
So perhaps the best message to these media types is not the one that comes from us, their readers (who they obviously don’t care about anyway) but the one they get themselves when ratings or ABC numbers come out. Once they see that nobody seems to care about who they endorse or slant their coverage toward and yet it does matter when they go to raise their advertising rates, they will get the message.
Well, the MSM has been complaining that Trump is travelling without a press pool. There's his press pool. He should choose reporters from those two and tell the others to pound sand.
Conclusion: Newspaper editorial endorsements are totally meaningless.
Reveals the extent of MSM bias. I would have thought it would have been a little better in Trump’s favor. It is disgusting that media is so in favor of somebody as corrupt as Hillary, somebody who has to be given in advance question to debates, somebody who want to bring in more radical Moslems.
ALL of us need to remember...
Who owns the newspapers? Probably only a few companies.
Media is dead. Their influence is dead.
What was their reasoning for supporting the corrupt Hillary and the fact that she has accomplished nothing, zero.
Obama bankrupted coal. He bragged about it, was proud of it.
Trump needs to do the same to the big media. Gut them like fish!
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