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Originally Posted by FlameOn
Should news outlets be allowed to officially endorse a single candidate (it is posted by calgary herald instead of some editor)? Sure you can have stories that run pro candidate-x but to me it seems wrong for any news outlet that has substantial influence on voter outcome to do something like this. Though to their credit they did run it just as an opinion piece.
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Why shouldn't it be allowed? The only mechanism by which such a practice could be "wrong" is the market. If you don't like it when your newspaper endorses a candidate, you have the power not to buy that newspaper any more.
But really, I don't think there's anything unethical about it: newspapers have endorsed candidates since time immemorial. They will continue to do so until there are no more newspapers (which may be sooner than you think... but that's another topic).