Over 200 Gannett outlets not 'endorsing in presidential or national races'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

10/28/24 7:10 PM ET


Over 200 American outlets under USA Today parent company Gannett will not back candidates “in presidential or national races,” according to USA Today.

“None of the USA TODAY Network publications are endorsing in presidential or national races,” a spokesperson for USA Today, Lark-Marie Antón, said in an email to The Hill on Monday.

On its website, Gannett describes the USA Today Network as “the largest local-to-national publishing and digital media organization in the country,” with “USA TODAY, our national flagship brand … at the center of the network, surrounded by hundreds of local media properties reporting on the stories and cultural moments happening in our communities.”

Some of the outlets listed as part of the USA Today Network, according to its website, include notable examples like The Arizona Republic, The Des Moines Register and the Detroit Free Press.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4958134-300-gannett-outlets-not-endorsing-presidential-national-races/

[Ramsey Barner]

1. They can endorse state and local candidates, but not presidential ones. Obeying in advance.

“While USA TODAY will not endorse for president, local editors at publications across the USA TODAY Network have the discretion to endorse at a state or local level,” Antón said in a different statement emailed to The Hill on Wednesday. “Many have decided not to endorse individual candidates, but rather, endorse key local and state issues on the ballot that impact the community.”

[CincyDem]

2. And to think...some though concentration of media ownership would be a bad thing.

[2naSalit]

3. Makes it so much...

Easier to drown the free press in a bathtub.

[travelingthrulife]

4. More cowards.

Democracy dies a little more in darkness.

How about we get rid of this handful of malignant wealthy people.

[jvill]

5. By commenting on local races, "independence" isn't the issue; they are obeying in advance of a single tyrant

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[BootinUp]

6. "Go ahead and vote for the serial liar!"

[Firestorm49]

7. An endorsement has never swayed my opinions during an election. To many, I'm sure it does.

[Farmer-Rick]

8. Anticipatory Obedience

This is how dictators win.

All the wannabe dick tater need do is threaten the weak kneed cowardly filthy-rich. And they obey. Even when the dictator hasn't taken over yet, they obligingly obey him....just in case.

[twodogsbarking]

9. They fear Trump. See.

[TBF]

10. CEO & Chairman of Board is Michael Reed -

Multimillionaire - https://www.gurufocus.com/insider/96967/michael-reed

Journalists revolted against him last year: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/business/media/gannett-journalists-walk-out.html --
In case there is paywall, title of the story was "Hundreds of Gannett Journalists Walk Out
The union representing the company’s newsroom employees criticized the C.E.O. for cutting jobs and hurting local journalism."

CEO Cutting jobs and hurting local journalism -- sounds like someone Trump would admire & vice versa