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Originally Posted by GirlySports
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As posted over the weekend, Not surprising. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is a story of corporate interference and the slide toward tabloid journalism. They were once a well respected paper, having won numerous Pulitzer Prizes over their history. They installed a Trumpist as the editor after the 2016 election and reporting was then skewed to favor Trump. It got so bad that they suffered from their good reporters moving on, others being fired, including their Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist, and then even restricting coverage of recent events like the BLM protests. Anything that could make Trump look bad was either buried or left out of their coverage. They have become the OANN of print journalism.
For those keeping score, this only Trump's ninth newspaper endorsement. These include the Sheldon Adelson owned Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Rupert Murdoch owned New York Post, the Phillip Anschutz owned Colorado Springs Gazette and Washington Examiner, The Cowles family owned Spokane The Spokesman Review, the Wendy McCaw owned Santa Barbara News Press (also the editor), the William Pape owned Waterbury Republican-American (also the editor), and the Digital First Media owned Boston Herald. That is a murder's row of ideological editorializing and the rapid decay of journalistic integrity in the industry.
For comparison, Biden has the endorsement of 105 print edition papers. McClatchy, one of the largest and most influential chains in the nation has not made an endorsement because of newly instituted rules for making endorsements. McClatcy will only allow endorsements if the candidates are willing to be interviewed by the editorial board. Donald Trump does not give interviews to local papers and as a result the papers are not allowed to give their endorsement, which last cycle went to Clinton, with the exception of the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram who endorsed "not Trump."