Robert Pratt
“The Dallas Morning News has “paid a price” for its Hillary Clinton endorsement” read a headline at journalism industry website poynter.org.
The story reported that the News “paid financially for its decision to endorse Clinton. Although he declined to say how many readers cancelled their subscriptions, Dallas Morning News Editor Mike Wilson acknowledged the endorsement came with a price tag.”
“Certainly we’ve paid a price for our presidential recommendation, but then, we write our editorials based on principle, and sometimes principle comes at a cost,” Wilson said in an email to Poynter.
Consumers can do whatever they wish with their money but I ask how ignorant one had to be of the Dallas Morning News editorial page (a sign by the way of how poorly read are the editorial pages) to not know that the paper had turned Left-liberal years ago.
Decades ago, like the once proud Chicago Tribune, the Morning News was one of the rare Republican and sometimes conservative voices during the dominance of the old-media but that changed long ago. In fact at some point during the last decade the editors there ran an editorial saying explicitly that they were indeed liberals. I covered that editorial on Pratt on Texas.
They’ve been liberals for years so why be surprised by their Clinton endorsement? Subscribers can do what they want with their money but they obviously weren’t reading the editorial pages before this and yet found value in the paper, why pretend all has suddenly changed?
D.J.Trump doesn’t advertise with them. Money talks