We were talking yesterday about Newspapers endorsing candidates. Which I have never thought was a good idea. Because if your JOB is to report the news impartially, endorsements mean you are no longer impartial. They use to carry a lot of weight, those endorsements - nowadays, not so much. Newspapers are owned by corporations interested in controlling or at least swaying public opinion. It is not an altruistic endorsement. No longer for the good of the people. In fact right here in Illinois recently, it has proven to be a bullying game, pitting candidates and controlling interests of these corporate papers(cant really call them NEWS papers any more as they have stepped away from what they were meant too be) against columnists that in the past were able to write freely on their chosen topics. Now apparently, IF the corporately owned newspaper has financial ties to a candidate, that candidate will get their endorsement and any columnist that calls its employer out on the sellout, will be summarily fired. Historically, columnists have always taken their employers to task in their columns. Staying true to course of their own identity and ideology, opening lively debates and discourse that help deliver the true issues, form opinions and in some cases sway votes. Its made newspapers one of my favorite forms of media - preferred even. Until now.... Seriously if all I wanted was talking heads that parrot one another, I would turn on ANY of the cable news networks and soak up their blathering. How sad that this countrys noble tradition of clear, concise, unbiased news reporting has become corporate America diatribe :/ And they wonder why they continue to lose market share to EVERY other form of media! SMH They should be ashamed! I know I am for them.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 21:38:39 +0000
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