Newspapers endorsing candidates for President

[jjm]

Tagej - But who should "police" that? In a free society, people are free to be uninformed too, if that's what they want. The potential costs to freedom of someone regulating the media seem far more dangerous to me than the choice some people make to be uninformed.

 

[JellyBaby]

<< In a free society, people can choose their sources of information. >>

jjm,

Ever read the book (or see the flick), Running Man? You'd be the first shipped off for &quot;re-education&quot;.

 

[Double Trouble]

jjm, noone can 'police' that, certainly not the government (something about letting a fox guard the henhouse comes to mind). It's up to the people to educate themselves and tune into those channels that keep their slant to a minimum. I mean, common, I'm not even asking for fair unbiased reporting (that would be a pipe dream), but could some of the major network reporters and anchors at least try to disguise their love for liberals and the liberal cause????

 

[AndrewR]

I'm not advocating government control of the media. While the thought appeals to me in certain instances, I recognize the danger of that control. If anything, the last eight years with Janet Reno have shown that the Executive Branch should not have control over investigating itself and should therefore not have control over reporting about itself.

In any event, the policing needs to come from the people. The readers need to voice their disgust with the current state of the media since it does not improve at all. Fairly soon I would expect to see a return of the yellow journalism of the late 1800's that plunged us into the Spanish American War. I see Hearst's spirit alive and well in some of the sensationalist crap that is flung upon the American public from self-proclaimed impartial &quot;reporters&quot;.

Even more effective would be internal policing from journalists with some ethics and spines, though that might be as improbable as elephants with flippers. If some people in the journalist profession decided that any bias is too much and sought to write articles for the facts they intend to convey, there are intelligent people in this country that would recognize that and support it. I have my skepticism that such an event will ever occur.

 

[PCAddict]

<< Among other major U.S. newspapers endorsing candidates for president, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The San Francisco Chronicle have also endorsed Gore, while the Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times and The Cincinnati Enquirer have endorsed Bush. >>


Gee, what a big suprise. The Philadelphia Inquirer sucks, but everyone who lives in this area already knows that by now.

I'm waiting for a suprise, but so far all of the area newspapers have endorsed who I predicted they would. I almost fainted when the local newspaper endorsed the state Senate candidate that I plan on voting for. He's trying to unseat a do-nothing incumbent.