Is The Newspaper Political Endorsement A Thing Of The Past?
from the hopefully... dept
Romenesko recently pointed us to the news that the Atlanta Journal Constitution has decided to do away with political endorsements, and instead, focus on trying to provide more information on what candidates positions really are on various issues. This makes a lot of sense. I'd always wondered how much impact (if any) newspaper endorsements had these days. It may have been significant in the past, perhaps, but these days, with so many ways of getting information about candidates, it's difficult to see how an 11th hour endorsement from a newspaper people probably don't trust anyway is going to make a difference. And, of course, I could never understand how newspapers hold themselves up as bastions of objective reporting... and then turn around and endorse candidates. While I tend to think that the whole concept of journalist objectivity is overblown, these newspaper endorsements weren't helping either way. Hopefully other newspapers will follow suit.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Hold 2 editions of the Sun next to eachother from a week apart and one is New Labour, the other Conservative. They did a whole Front Page of 'Why We're Ditching Labour' and I just thought 'what a load of bollocks, you were bitching chronic about Cameron last week and now he's shitting angels, wtf?'
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It is about time!
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