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No less than SIX New Hampshire newspapers endorsed Hillary Clinton... (Original Post) cherokeeprogressive Feb 2016 OP
Also, both states start with the letter "N" firebrand80 Feb 2016 #1
Too many people are on to the news media as pawns of the establishment emsimon33 Feb 2016 #2
Endorsement ain't what they used to be. Wilms Feb 2016 #3
Yea endorsements are overrated DemocraticSocialist8 Feb 2016 #15
You forget kcjohn1 Feb 2016 #4
Sucks to be endorsed! cherokeeprogressive Feb 2016 #6
Wake up and smell the Internet Coffee, newspaper people. Uncle Joe Feb 2016 #5
T'was my pleasure. cherokeeprogressive Feb 2016 #8
Here is the big secret about big paper DC insiders ensdorsements nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #7
^^THIS^^ cherokeeprogressive Feb 2016 #10
You welcome and that picture of Killroy really kills me every time I see it nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #13
I love the Kilroy story. nt cherokeeprogressive Feb 2016 #19
This is correct. HooptieWagon Feb 2016 #16
We have a second one that started nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #18
I don't get a newspaper anymore, but once in awhile, I drive down to the gas station tularetom Feb 2016 #9
Obviously it don't mean shit whatchamacallit Feb 2016 #11
I walk down the road for the free community paper nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #12
Seriously, these endorsements are counterproductive for Hillary. earthside Feb 2016 #14
They can't even hide the incest any longer. It's like they think no one's been watching for decades. cherokeeprogressive Feb 2016 #21
And the newspapers are wondering RoccoR5955 Feb 2016 #17
3 words SmittynMo Feb 2016 #20
Nobody pay s for newspapers anymore. Why vote as they suggest? leveymg Feb 2016 #22
15. Yea endorsements are overrated
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 11:37 PM
Feb 2016

Unless it's from someone with pull in the community. Not some newspaper that people barely read or some politician no one cares about.

kcjohn1

(751 posts)
4. You forget
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 11:21 PM
Feb 2016

Current NH Governor, Only Democratic Senator and House Member + 9/10 state senators + Countless other estableshment Dems in NH + Massachusetts

 

cherokeeprogressive

(24,853 posts)
8. T'was my pleasure.
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 11:29 PM
Feb 2016

I hope people don't think I lack empathy... damn if I don't feel for the whole Hillary Clinton society. To feel it slipping slowly through their hands knowing the end of that rope is so near must be so disheartening. I feel for them I really do.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
7. Here is the big secret about big paper DC insiders ensdorsements
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 11:28 PM
Feb 2016

(And I understand if this hurts some HRC supporters)

They really do not matter anymore. They are empty noise.

For the papers, well it is a dying business, so the people who tend to read them are already mostly in the bag for Mrs Clinton. The DC insiders... people have so much respect for those within the beltway that really warms my heart.

Where endorsements still make some of a difference (and it is a good question for how long) it is in local politics.

This is quite the unvarnished truth.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
13. You welcome and that picture of Killroy really kills me every time I see it
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 11:35 PM
Feb 2016

mostly I know the history behind it.

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
16. This is correct.
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 11:38 PM
Feb 2016

M$M is dying. Newspaper endorsements don't mean much, TV viewership is fading (even cable), and radio is almost dead. All those advertising dollars don't reach that much of a market, even among older folks. It's a changing world. Bernies campaign gets it, Hillary's team doesn't. That's why a carefully orchestrated Swiftboat attack crumbled in a few hours, and the front men for it are being disemboweled on Twitter.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
18. We have a second one that started
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 11:40 PM
Feb 2016

over fingers... and that is starting to crumble as well.

MSM must be confused.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
9. I don't get a newspaper anymore, but once in awhile, I drive down to the gas station
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 11:31 PM
Feb 2016

to pick up a sunday paper. Its about ten miles and there are probably 15 homes between me and the station. In the old days, all 15 had a newspaper box mounted on the pole with their mailbox. Now, one.

I get a call from the paper at least once a month offering me some fantastic deal to resubscribe. But what they cannot get around is the fact that it costs them a fucking fortune to deliver papers out here to Bumfuck Nowhere. So they really don't have a chance.

Point is, nobody reads newspapers and consequently, those endorsements really amount to nothing.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
12. I walk down the road for the free community paper
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 11:33 PM
Feb 2016

for the cage...

I don't even buy a Sunday edition anymore

earthside

(6,960 posts)
14. Seriously, these endorsements are counterproductive for Hillary.
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 11:36 PM
Feb 2016

They all just feed into the prevailing narrative that Hillary Clinton is a tool of the elite establishment.

As for the endorsement of Clinton by the Las Vegas Sun, well, big deal.

The Las Vegas Sun is one of the Las Vegas Valley's two daily newspapers. It is owned by the Greenspun family and is affiliated with Greenspun Media Group.

The paper published afternoons on weekdays from 1990 to 2005. The paper is now included as a section inside the pages of Las Vegas Review-Journal but continues operating exclusively on its website.

Publisher and president Brian Greenspun, former publisher Hank Greenspun's son, was a college roommate of President Bill Clinton. Greenspan welcomed Clinton, while president, as a house guest during a Clinton fundraising trip to southern Nevada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Sun
 

cherokeeprogressive

(24,853 posts)
21. They can't even hide the incest any longer. It's like they think no one's been watching for decades.
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 11:45 PM
Feb 2016

It actually blows me away.

SmittynMo

(3,544 posts)
20. 3 words
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 11:43 PM
Feb 2016

Corrupt establishment media.

Need I say more? This is total bullshit!!!

Can we now proceed to the political revolution?

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