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Newspaper endorsements.
Should you care?
Hot Air, by Jazz Shaw
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 10/21/2012 4:56:16 AM
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| It’s a perennial tradition in American elections which dates back pretty much as long as we’ve had elections. The board of editors at most all of the major newspapers get together every four years and pen some long winded explanation of how they have carefully weighed all of the facts, considered the angles, and will now share with you their expert opinion about who you should vote for and why. It’s the coveted newspaper endorsement, and campaigns love to talk about them when they get them. (And they love berating the ones who endorse the opponent nearly as much.)
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
srhcb, 10/21/2012 6:33:03 AM (No. 8949442)
Only if you are a pooping canary, peeing puppy or dead fish.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Wetlandz, 10/21/2012 7:48:56 AM (No. 8949517)
I've read the most self-serving, snarky and unapologetic endorsements for Romney and Obama. You can't get more out of touch than a college professor or a old news editorial board.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
pucky1, 10/21/2012 8:04:08 AM (No. 8949542)
Only if the New York Times comes out for Romney.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40, 10/21/2012 8:04:15 AM (No. 8949543)
NYT endorsement is crucial. No better indication that the voting for the other candidate is in the interest of the country.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird, 10/21/2012 8:56:14 AM (No. 8949642)
They can be misunderstood. Like when the Dem Salt Lake Tribune comes out for Obama - again. There for him in 2008, they were also there for Kerry in 2004 and on and on and on.
But those who don't know any better believe that a Mormon candidate should get the SLC paper's endorsement. Only if that paper has not been traditionally anti-Mormon....
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 10/21/2012 8:56:58 AM (No. 8949643)
Newspapers are dying because they lack credibility. Endorsements of the kenyan klown only hasten their death wish.
Separate from endorsements, however, is the stunt newspapers use to influence voters.
A quick example last week was the Erie (Pa) times news. The header on an article about an employee of a voter registration outfit who threw away ELEVEN voter registration forms, was FORMER GOVERNOR CORBETT AIDE CHARGED.
The lad was an unpaid intern in governor corbett's office in 2011. And he was not charged with anything.
But alot of people only read the headline or the first paragraph of an article.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
uno, 10/21/2012 9:25:59 AM (No. 8949706)
What's a "newspaper"?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MickTurn, 10/21/2012 10:06:52 AM (No. 8949834)
What is a 'Newspaper'? Oh, right that rag they used to throw in my front yard that I rarely read. Then I cancelled it. I have no time for papers that insult me and play up to my enemies!
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Secretary of State John F. Kerry is getting mixed reviews in his first high-stakes test as North Korea brazenly threatens a nuclear showdown — a challenge that highlights the strengths as well as the weaknesses of the nation’s newly minted top diplomat, experts say. “If you wanted a champion for peace and stability, somebody who has a sophistication and savvy, we couldn’t have a better person than John Kerry in the mix,” said Charles Stith, a Boston University professor and former U.S. ambassador to Tanzania. With North Korea apparently poised to launch a missile test, Kerry traveled East
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Weekly Standard, by Geoffrey Norman
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Guardian [UK], by Nicholas Watt
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/12/2013 4:30:23 AM
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Buckingham Palace raised concerns about the ceremonial funeral with military honours for Lady Thatcher that is to be attended on Wednesday by the Queen and more than 2,000 guests including every surviving British prime minister, the Guardian understands. As invitations were sent out to world leaders, including all surviving US presidents and Hillary Clinton, it emerged that concerns were expressed at the highest levels about whether it is appropriate for such a controversial figure to be escorted on her final journey by more than 700 military personnel. In discussions about the funeral held over recent years, it is understood
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Tampa Tribune, by Bill Cotterell
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Posted By: Hazymac- 4/13/2013 11:04:13 AM
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Thatcher thought Britain
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Orange County Register (Ca), by Mark Steyn
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/12/2013 5:58:55 PM
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A few hours after Margaret Thatcher´s death on Monday, the snarling deadbeats of the British underclass were gleefully rampaging through the streets of Brixton in South London, scaling the marquee of the local fleapit and hanging a banner announcing, "THE B@&$! IS DEAD." Amazingly, they managed to spell all four words correctly. By Friday, "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead," from "The Wizard of Oz," was the No. 1 download at Amazon UK. Mrs. Thatcher would have enjoyed all this. Her former speechwriter John O´Sullivan recalls how, some years after leaving office, she
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