Nation's Second-Biggest Newspaper Company Will Stop Endorsing Candidates

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

Publications owned by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital, the second-largest newspaper publisher in the country, will no longer endorse major political candidates in their opinion pages.

In an editorial that is scheduled to run in papers as early as Friday, the company’s publications will tell readers that they will stop endorsing candidates in presidential, senate and gubernatorial elections.

A copy of the editorial was obtained by The New York Times. Alden confirmed its contents and timing.

“Unfortunately, as the public discourse has become increasingly acrimonious, common ground has become a no man’s land between the clashing forces of the culture wars,” according to a copy of the planned editorial.

Read more: htthttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/business/media/alden-newspaper-candidate-endorsements.html

[bullimiami]

1. Cowards.

[Atticus]

2. Beat me to it. nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Exactly.

[intheflow]

9. Exactly the word I was going to use.

Maybe consider why political discourse has become so rancorous, recognize it’s because one party is trying to destroy our political system, and express opinions about it - to inform the public about the risks of fascism, and of voting for people who are fascists. smd.

[NCjack]

5. Yeah, they are cowards who are unwilling to call out fascists when they see them.

[JusticeForAll]

6. Enablers nt

[Karadeniz]

7. Why would they want common ground with fascist liars? It's their job to expose.

[SouthernDem4ever]

8. I guess they think they can make more money pretending like they are impartial

but you're right. They are making themselves irrelevant and purposeless.