Can you tell which way your local paper is leaning - * or Kerry?

[AVID]

I have been emailing weekly correspondences with the editor of our local paper. He insists he has total control over the endorsement for Pres. It is part of the Lee Enterprises chain.

Based on buried stories, LTTE choices and DNC coverage, I'm betting on a *b endorsement. Which will please 55% of this Montana town.

WHich way is your paper leaning?

[acmavm]

1. Omaha World Herald - Republican all the way.

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[NEDem]

43. Lincoln Journal Star (Nebraska)

Repub all the way, they are completely clueless, but still ridiculously conservative.

[swag]

2. Are you in Billings? Sorry, I forgot

I live in Portland, OR, and the Oregonian, though it often has fits of rationality, seems to me to be on the verge of once again endorsing Commander Bunnypants.

Oregon ignored the Oregonian's endorsement last time and will do so again this time.

Oregon is for Kerry.

USA is for Kerry.

[AVID]

4. Yes Billings

[swag]

5. Very cool

So you think the Gazette will give the Lynndie thumb to Kerry?

[AVID]

8. I think it would shock many

in Billings if the Gazette swung for Kerry - That would be awesome - I'm working on it but thats just me

[swag]

14. Fun. I think I should start lobbying the Havre Daily News

from a distance.

Or just take some thumbscrews with me when I roll up there in October.

[King of New Orleans]

33. Here's a link showing who papers endorsed in 2000

though I think newspaper endorsements don't have much impact in high profile races

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/natendorse5.html

I fully expect the New Orleans Times-Picayune to endorse GeeW. I fully intend to cancel my subscription the next day.

[RichV]

3. AJC -- gotta go with Kerry

Or so I'd guess.

[mzmolly]

6. I stopped reading mine when they endorsed Coleman over Mondale.

:puke:

[Not Me]

7. Orlando Sentinel...definitely repug

And even worse, is their local cable tv headline-news type channel. This morning they introducted a segment of "On the campaign trail" and then went into *'s upcoming week schedule...with ablsolutely no mention of Kerry/Edwards.

It's beyond blatant. I cannot wait for the morning of November 3rd.

[floridaguy]

11. We're gonna have to do a victory lap around Florida!

We'll hold a rally in front of every paper which endorsed the loser!
We'll call it the Florida Kerryvan for Victory! Are you in?

[floridaguy]

9. Here in Southwest Florida a/k/a Republican heaven

or God's waiting room, if you'd like. If our paper endorsed Kerry, I would be stunned and flabbergasted and would be forced to do something totally silly. :silly:

As far as the majority RW nuts, they'd probably bulldoze the paper's building with their Hummer's!

It will definitely be a * endorsement, but like in Oregon, Florida is going Kerry/Edwards for sure. Even the arrogant GOP jerks here are starting to mumble about Kerry being elected.

I fucking love it :bounce:

[SW FL Dem]

30. LOL - If the NDN endorsed Kerry I would probably faint

Unfortunately, the chance of it happening are slim and none. At least I am seeing many Kerry stickers here. I see at least one a day. I ordered a bunch of Kerry/Edwards buttons and stickers. I ordered a bunch of extra Kerry/Edwards buttons and stickers and I'm handing them out quickly :)

[Feanorcurufinwe]

10. He may have total control, but I'm sure Lee gave him the job because

they were sure he would endorse Bush.

I don't look at the Missoulian enough to make my own call, here.

[sweetladybug]

15. Here in Nashville, the Tennessean lean towards Kerry

[napi21]

12. Gainesville Times (Ga.) Shrub!

I've had several letters to the editor published, and of course, each time, some local resident sends a scathing rebuttle to them which gets published a few days later. The opinion pages make a slight effort to be neutral, but sure do run more Pub editorials, and the only candidate they have a positive oinion on is the shrub!

Hey, this is North Ga., ya know.

[murielm99]

13. Do some research on Lee Enterprises.

I used to fight with our area newspaper all the time when they were owned by Lee. A different chain owns them now.

Lee tried to steer certain papers for candidates at one time. They also wanted a chain-wide editorial published in all their papers. I think they wanted it every two weeks.

They did not get away with a lot of the stuff they tried to do. There was too much local criticism.

I got all my info by Googling them at the time my local paper was one of theirs.

See what you can come up with. Pressure them.

I am not sure about the papers here. I stopped reading the one that I used to argue with all the time. The new editor would not publish my LTTEs any more. I sent them one once a month, per their policy. He told me he wanted to hear from "new" people!

I read a paper from a Rockford IL now. I live in a very small town with a weekly. They don't do endorsement.

Rockford is a Democratic town, but the paper is a bit conservative. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

[indepat]

16. Reading just my Scripps-Howard rag, one would hardly know of the scandals,

the mountain of scandals piled up by this Administration. Have not seen even one editorial on the torture scandals, much less that mountain of other scandals/disastrous policies, be they pre-emptive war(s), environmental, fiscal/tax, war on the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights. After all Scripps-Howard editorially supported GWB in the 2000 election and let's stay the course, no matter how wrong-headed/how disastrous.

[WyLoochka]

17. Tectonic plates would have already shifted

if the Arizona Republic (dis-affectionately known for years as the Repulsive) endorsed Kerry.

[Warpy]

18. The morning paper (Albuquerque Journal) is for morons

and features "comic" strips like Beetle Bailey and Prince Valiant. Of course, it is rabidly pro Bush.

The evening paper(Albuquerque Tribune) carries For Better or Worse and is much more evenhanded about politics. They even run columns by (gasp) people like Ellen Goodman once in a blue moon.

The odd thing is that both papers are owned by the same outfit. The sad thing is that the only one that comes out on Sunday is the Journal, so it gets more exposure.

Of course, nobody around here reads any of it but the circulars and want ads.

[unfrigginreal]

19. I expect the Charlotte Observer will endorse Kerry...

they backed Gore in 2000 but Bush took the county by about 3%. We've probably got a much better shot at carrying Mecklenburg County(Charlotte) this time around with Edwards on the ticket.

[featherman]

20. Study of 2000 election found

that newspapers endorsed GOP candidate (ole what's-his name) over Gore by better than 2-1 margin maybe closer to 3-1 if memory serves. It would be interesting, though, to run another study by circulation since there are very many small rural and small city papers that have a primarily GOP readership and only one Los Angeles Times (for example). That being said our local rural paper will endorse Bush but grudgingly...he is way too left wing for them.

[TOhioLiberal]

21. Here in my neck of the woods...

...the local rag, the Toledo Blade is leaning towards Kerry; which is hardly surprising to me, as the Blade's owner owns the other paper in Pittsburg (not Scaife).

[Pachamama]

22. SF Chronicle, SJ Mercury News - Bay Area in General - definitely Kerry

Although I still often get the impression they are "holding back" stronger outrage & opinion against this Administration...maybe when "dissent" is safe again, the media chicken sh*ts will all come out of their holes....where are they when you need them?

[Skarbrowe]

23. South Florida Sun-Sentinel should endorse Kerry but

I'm not 100 percent sure. Ft. Lauderdale is very progressive. We've been called the East Coast San Francisco. :) The paper is owned by the Chicago Tribune Co. I believe, so, who knows.

Skarbrowe

[PROGRESSIVE1]

24. CT Post for Bushler.

:puke:

[JerseygirlCT]

35. I'm afraid about the Courant, too.

They get a lot of flack about being a "liberal" paper. Then they endorse Rowland (!) last time. They're owned by the Tribune co. now -- not exactly a bastion of liberalism.

There's some hope, as CT is a pretty safe Kerry state. But I wouldn't wake up shocked to find they've caved and tepidly endorsed Bush.

[otohara]

25. Denver Post - Kerry - Rocky Mt. News - Bush

usually the way it is in Denver

[stevielizard]

26. Aspen Times & Daily News both lean left

when they print angry letters about editorials the RW ones always sound ridiculopolis.

[Cha]

27. We'll see what the New York Times has to say...

But the newspapers are corporations and I'm not surprised that in spite of what the bushites are doing to our country that the bottom line is the only thing they care about.

But Kerry is still going to win and all those loser newspapers who endorsed bush can just go sink.

[redsoxliberal]

28. Boston Globe

Take a guess :P

[redsoxliberal]

29. One Newspaper in Egypt

going Nader all the way.


(Not joking.)

[shtinkycat]

42. How I envy you redsox!

Here in Central east coast Florida we have the Florida Today - leaning ever so slightly towards Kerry. But we usually read the NYT and LAT to stay sane. Love the Globe.

[ArnoldLayne]

31. Wheeling WV -The Intelligencer

is a Republican newspaper.

[uconnyc]

32. Arizona

Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) - Definitely Kerry

Arizona Republic (Phoenix) - Most likely *

[King of New Orleans]

34. Here's a link with major newspaper endorsements from 2000

though I think newspaper endorsements don't have much impact in high profile races

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/natendorse5.html

I fully expect the New Orleans Times-Picayune to endorse GeeW. I fully intend to cancel my subscription the next day.

[Arugula Latte]

36. The Oregonian (Portland/entire state):

I was thinking abou this today. The idiots on the editorial board (under pressure from the publisher, no doubt) endorsed Dumbass in 2000. However, it was one of the lamest, weakest endorsements I'd ever seen.

On Sundays they always print the total number of letters received for the week, how many they published, and the hot topics. Here is what it said today:

"Hot topic:The upcoming presidential election, with 325 letters. Of the total, 241 expressed support for John Kerry and/or criticism of George W. Bush. 54 gave support to Bush and/or criticism of Kerry, and 30 commented without taking sides."

Wow! Pro-Kerry letters are running almost 5-to-1 over pro-Bush letters. That tells you where the readership of the state's largest paper is.

However, I wouldn't be surprised if these numbnuts went ahead and endorsed Bush again with something like: "Although he's been a complete failure in every aspect of his presidency, George W. Bush is deserving of our vote."

[swag]

51. Yeah, they'll let Reinhard write the clinching paragraph

[Arugula Latte]

52. God I hate that piece of crap Reinhard

What a moronic, egomaniacal blowhard. I had the misfortune of speaking to him on the phone one time, and he was the rudest person I've ever conversed with.

[swag]

53. I'm going to Photoshop that web site photo of his

just stick the head on top of a squishy baby in diapers, and plaster that shit all up on Broadway right by the Snore-Bomb's offices.

[Arugula Latte]

63. Heh heh!

I like the way you think, Swag!! :toast: :thumbsup:

[Piperay]

37. South Bay Daily Breeze (chimp)

here in the coastal area of Los Angeles County...will give endorsement for chimp. Daily Breeze is a right-wing rag that ALWAYS endorses the repukes no matter how sleazy, corrupt and inept they are.

[Happy Eddie]

38. Hartford for *?

The Hartford Courant, Connecticut's largest-circulation paper, endorsed * in 2000. I believe that the only time they have ever endorsed a Democrat was in '92. I expect them to stay in the Replonk column in 2004, though I haven't been reading it for a while.

I would look for the New London Day to endorse Kerry, and the Norwich Bulletin to go for *. I don't know the New Haven Register well enough to predict.

[Padraig18]

39. Our local paper is Republican owned, BUT....

The owner/editor/publisher is a paleo-conservative Republican, and has been highly critical of Bush, especially regarding Iraq, the budget deficits and Ashcroft's Justice Department. No endorsement yet, of course, but I have a gut feeling that he MAY endorse Kerry. He endorsed Clinton in 1996, so there is a precedent.

[Sparkly]

40. Baltimore Sun is sure to endorse Kerry

and did a *great* editorial today on the Smearvets.

[Cha]

54. Oh, I would love to read that.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

57. The Low Road

FROM A TACTICAL standpoint, it makes some sense for backers of President Bush to run campaign ads questioning the military heroism of Democratic challenger John Kerry. The comfort level Americans feel with Mr. Bush as their commander in chief is currently his greatest advantage over Senator Kerry in the presidential campaign. President Bush can't afford to let Mr. Kerry succeed in his drive to use his decorated wartime service to neutralize that advantage.

Even if the claims of the anti-Kerry veterans featured in one ad are "dishonest and dishonorable," as Republican Sen. John McCain charged, they raise questions that inevitably make the challenger's job of winning voter confidence more difficult. But mud-slinging of this nature smacks of a desperation move that suggests the president fears he can't win any other way. It could also inspire a nasty backlash that spatters Mr. Bush with charges about his own Vietnam-era military service -- or lack thereof.

<snip>

But at the core of the conflict seems to be a three-decade-old grudge against the senator by veterans such as John O'Neill, one of those in the ad, because of Mr. Kerry's post-service role leading anti-war protests. And the credibility of the anti-Kerry attack was undermined Friday when The Boston Globe, which has exhaustively investigated the topic, reported that one of the key figures featured in the ad retracted the statement that supports a central allegation. Mr. Kerry's former commanding officer, George Elliot, told the Globe he made a "terrible mistake" in signing an affidavit swearing that Mr. Kerry "lied about what occurred in Vietnam" and that the senator didn't deserve a Silver Star because "he simply shot a wounded, fleeing Viet Cong in the back."

Mr. Elliot, who was not present at the scene, told the Globe, "I still don't think he shot the guy in the back," but felt under "time pressure" to sign the affidavit.

President Bush should immediately repudiate these shameful ads and urge that they be taken off the air.

If he can't win without them, perhaps he shouldn't.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-ed.campaign08aug08,1,3628830.story?coll=bal-opinion-headlines

[doc03]

41. Upper Ohio Valley papers the Wheeling Intelligencer,

The Times Leader, and the Herold Star all owned by the the same Repug. We also have Teresa's favorite paper the Tribune Review it's a Richard Mellon Scaiffe rag, need I say more. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette may be for Kerry, at least they are fair and give both sides of issues. According to the link on post #34 the Pittsburgh Post Gazette went for Gore in 2000.

[ButterflyBlood]

44. here in Minnesota:

Mankato Free Press - most likely Kerry. They had a harsh editorial on * when he visited here.
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) - Freepers call it the Red Star. One of the most notoriously liberal papers in America. Take a guess.
Pioneer Press (St. Paul) - Right wing rag. * definately.

[gatorboy]

45. The first night of the DNC and our headline story was...

...New crosswalk being built downtown.

That was even the main photo of the paper. A big picture of the boardwalk under construction. No convention. No Clinton. A. Freakin'. Boardwalk.


EDIT: Hot Springs, Arkansas, by the way

[Cha]

55. How uncaring about news and history can you be?

They should be totally Ashamed.

[LTR]

46. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Likely Kerry

I'm sure they're uneasy with Bush.

They try to be a bipartisan paper, but sometimes overkill with bad RW columns (Kathleen Parker, Cal Thomas, etc.).

BTW: They did not make an endorsement in 2000.

[Nicholas_J]

47. Where I live...

definitely Bush.When Kerry wins, neither the papers, television, or radio will recognize the results and will probably not show the election results. It took a very small number of complaints for MoveOn ads to be pulled and vanish from television and only recently have the new anti-Bush ads started appearing, and I thinks something must have happened to prevent them from pulling them again. Not only that, for the first time in my entire nearly five years in this city, I ran into some people from MoveOn in front of my public library, with petitions to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. When I tried to get into the library, I had to try to figure a way to avoid the people with the petitions, as it has always been neo-cons trying to push extremely conservative programs through petitions. On the way out I was alone, and cornered this time, but when I saw MoveOn had provided the petition froms for these people I almost peed in my pants with relief. Things are changing a bit here, but not enough to get the republican owned media here to support Kerry, or even for the newspaper to print and assert that the latest swift boat stuff is absolutely the truth. My city had the largest number of democratic votes not counted.

[Arkana]

48. Well...

I'm from the good old Bay State, so we will invariably go Kerry. I'm not worried about that. My local papers, however, like the Telegram & Gazette and the Boston Herald are screaming GOP rags.

Good thing we have the Kerry-leaning Boston Globe.

[PatGund]

49. It's the San Diego Union-Tribune....

...Which means that Bush could be BBQing puppies on live TV, and they'd have the front page decicated to Bush's "brave culinary vision", the editorial section would have at least two editorials praising Bush's "way of controling the excess canine population", the Letters to the Editor section would be at least 55% BBQed puppy, and the food section would have the recipe for the BBQ sauce.

[SHRED]

69. So true

This county(San Diego) is about as Republican as it gets.
Thank goodness I live in the north county costal region where there is still a bit of sanity left.

:toast:

[PatGund]

71. Besides which.....

The North County Times is actually a good newspaper. Unlike the San Diego Union-Tribune fishwrap....

Used to live in Escondido. Miss the place.

[fujiyama]

50. Southeast MI

Metro Detroit area:

Detroit News -- shitty Bush rag. They endorsed him in '00. They will do so again. It's owned by Gannet I think.

Detroit Free Press -- most likely will endorse Kerry. They endorsed Gore in '00.

[Maestro]

56. Dallas Morning News

Biggest hunk of crap this side of the Mason Dixie Line. The columnists they have there, for the most part, have their head up their arse. It has become so wingnut that I stopped taking it years ago.

On the other hand, the Ft. Worth Star Telegram is at the very least neutral with leftist tendencies. Regular columnists include Molly Ivins.

[blue neen]

58. Local papers are Greensburg Trib & Valley News Dispatch

Both of these are owned by Richard Mellon Scaife (main source of
harassment in Teresa Heinz Kerry's life and Bill Clinton's). I
cancelled my subscriptions. I refuse to give my money to Scaife.
I now get the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. That one is Pro-Kerry. Yeah!

[BlueCollar]

67. The Star Telegram

is a slightly better product than the DMN, but I feel certain that it will endorse Bush...

[k in IA]

59. Cedar Rapids Gazette - Republican and amazingly small paper.

God, I miss the Kansas City Star - real paper including all the real news - will endorse Kerry, I'm sure.

[WFF]

60. My paper solicited LTTE for Bush

The Appleton (WI) Post Crescent had an editorial a few months ago saying that they were getting too many anti-Bush letters and they wanted some pro-Bush letters to even it out!

[xcmt]

61. The Journal - Eastern WV

Contrary to other places I've lived, this section of West Virginia has many sort of small, city-based local papers. The Journal is the closest thing to wide distribution (for those not opting for The Washington Post), but they don't cover much national politics. The latest accident on I-81 gets top billing, and anything Iraq/Kerry/Bush usually lands a small blurb on page 6.

That said, they run pro-Bush editorials about five times as frequently as they run anything pro-Kerry. And the pro-Bush articles are always straightforward defenses of Bush, while the Kerry articles merely use the Democratic platform/campaign as part of a discussion of some kind of local issue.

They went Bush in 2000, and they'll probably do it again in 2004, if they bother to run an endorsement at all.

[aldian159]

62. The Trib?

GOP all the way. They endorsed George Ryan in 2002, if I remember correctly.

Ditto for the Sun-Times, but since the Sun-Times is crap, it's not so bad.

[Scorpious_Maximus]

64. Providence Journal

Texas based Belo owned and operated, but they are in the very blue state of RI; hence, they're pussies and won't commit either way.

[Dying Eagle]

65. My local paper made the DU Top Ten Consev. Idiots list

The Appleton The Post-Crescent. They asked there readers to send more Pro-Shrub Letters because they were not getting enough. I will never read that bird cage liner again!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/04/156.html

[SeveneightyWhoa]

66. Edmonton Sun (Canada)

..is BUSH all the way!

It's rather pathetic, really. The editorial staff spends each day complaining about how "corrupt" the Liberal government in Canada is, yet give unwavering support to the Bush Regime. It's uncanny.

Proof that "corruption" only matters when its the other side holding power..

[SHRED]

68. San Diego Union

Republican fishwrap for a Repulican county along with the local news channels.

[michigandem2]

70. oh mine is easy...its Bush...

living in the conservitive side of Michigan...its no question...they buried the story about Bush not wanting the 9/11 comission--which in turn made my mom SO angry she wrote a letter to the editor...