Are they relevant anymore? You can guarantee who a newspaper is going to endorse by their political leanings. The NY Times hasn’t endorsed a republican since the 1950s.
I saw today that The NY Times has endorsed two democrats (Warren, Klobuchar) and I’m not really sure why. They’re so enamored they just can’t pick one?
Why are these relevant at all? They do nothing but turn off readers who can be swayed by their ideological leanings.
I have no idea why the times decided they needed to make an endorsement in the primaries at this time. Or at any time during the primaries. It makes no sense and kind of ticks me off.
What about during the presidential election? I know they’re going to endorse the democrat… that doesn’t want to make me read the times or editorials- I don’t want to be lectured by a bunch of left-wingers. What purpose do they serve?
Clinton won support from not only traditionally Democratic-leaning newspapers, but also traditionally non-political and conservative newspapers,[1][2]including those that had “…either never before supported a Democrat or had not in many decades … or had never endorsed any presidential candidate, like USA Today .”[1]Many newspapers that endorsed Clinton encouraged readers to vote for her primarily, if not solely, to prevent Trump from being elected president. That a handful of newspapers endorsed third partycandidates, including independent candidate Evan McMullin as well as Johnson, broke from the usual practice of newspaper editorial boards endorsing only a candidate from one of the two major parties.[2][8]