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2016-09-22 Home Front: Politix
The Dallas Morning News Is Paying Dearly For Endorsing Hillary Clinton
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Posted by Fred 2016-09-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 The Dallas Morning News Is Paying Dearly For Endorsing Hillary Clinton

But it is nothing compared to the price the American people will pay if she is elected.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-22 04:16||   2016-09-22 04:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Just the Americans, Besoeker?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-22 05:11||   2016-09-22 05:11|| Front Page Top

#3 San Diego Union Tribune was sold to the Chicago Tribune TRONC syndicate - same thing. Endorsed Hildabeest. F THEM
Posted by Frank G 2016-09-22 07:16||   2016-09-22 07:16|| Front Page Top

#4 "Trump’s values are hostile to conservatism," the editorial board wrote. "He plays on fear -- exploiting base instincts of xenophobia, racism and misogyny -- to bring out the worst in all of us, rather than the best."

Written by someone who lives in a gated community or rich suburb, making a 6 figure salary. The rest of the population has to live in the real world, with real threats. It's never your children on the front lines.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-22 08:04||   2016-09-22 08:04|| Front Page Top

#5 "Trump’s values are hostile to conservatism,"

Map is not a territory. Ideology is a map of the real world.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-22 08:35||   2016-09-22 08:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Readers probably say, this newspaper is crap, why waste my money on drek? (I'm nearly there with my newspaper too). Same way with the NFL, viewership has suffered due to the flag protests by Kaepernick and other NFL players. You as an NFL player have a right to protest but don't expect others to feel warm and fuzzy about your protest; they will get you where it hurts--your money.
Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-22 10:58||   2016-09-22 10:58|| Front Page Top

#7 A non-endorsement of any candidate would not have that big of an impact in Texas where Trump will win anyway.

Not endorsing Trump is one thing, and perhaps a principled case can be made. But endorsing Clinton who is definitely "an unacceptable choice for president"? That is completely unprincipled. This jackass editor shows why the press has lost all respect of any principled and rational person.
Posted by Snakes Schwarzeneggar7423 2016-09-22 11:27||   2016-09-22 11:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-09-22 14:27||   2016-09-22 14:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Newspapers should report news, analyze them, put them into context.

Endorsing candidates is not their business. As a wise senior German publisher once said: Newspapers should not join a cause, not even a good one.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-09-22 14:38||   2016-09-22 14:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Not the American Way EC, hard to believe, but papers used to be even more partisan.
Posted by Shipman 2016-09-22 15:29||   2016-09-22 15:29|| Front Page Top

#11 It was common back in the day for cities of even modest size to have two daily papers, one for each end of the political spectrum.
Posted by SteveS 2016-09-22 15:55||   2016-09-22 15:55|| Front Page Top

#12 Endorsing candidates is not their business

Actually, it was to begin with. Check some of the names of papers back in the early 19C. They were clearly self identified as party organs. It was only when they started getting a paying revenue stream from advertizing which replaced the party subsidizes that they decided to put the mask of 'propriety' to keep the game going.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-22 15:59||   2016-09-22 15:59|| Front Page Top

#13 The way I understand it the 'non-bias' part of journalism was originally specific to free-lance services that had to make things neutral to sell stories to all papers. The papers themselves never felt constrained. Well they still don't but the journalists themselves still play that card as if they've ever been strictly neutral.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-09-22 18:05||   2016-09-22 18:05|| Front Page Top

#14 8 Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

That's true. And any of you who live in locales where the current "R"'s say that they can't support Trump should be shown the door the moment your voters have the opportunity. They are *bad* people who aren't standing up for anything other than graft.
Posted by Crusader 2016-09-22 23:11||   2016-09-22 23:11|| Front Page Top

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