Big newspapers have been endorsing presidential candidates less and less as time has gone on, showing that newspapers are no longer the leaders they once were.

According to Just the News, U.S. newspaper endorsements for the Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, have dropped by more than 60% this year compared to 2016.

U.S. newspaper endorsements for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris have dropped by more than 60% this year compared to 2016, according to an estimate by Fox News Digital.

More than 240 newspapers endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016, with only 20 endorsing Trump. In 2020, Trump’s number fell to 14 newspapers while only 120 endorsed Biden. This year, according to their count, nearly 80 newspapers have endorsed Harris, while fewer than 10 endorsed Trump.

Most newspapers have endorsed candidates in elections since the 19th century, according to Fox News, as papers were more openly connected to political parties. But over the years newspapers became more independent of the parties and supposedly independent editorial boards started making the endorsements. They generally suggest, and it is often true, that there is a wall separating their news coverage from their editorial and commentary pages.

There was a time when there was no doubt what candidate a paper would support because they were nearly all partisan operations from the beginning.

Then in the 1960s, “journalists” began pretending to be “impartial” and pledged to give us “only the facts.” This trend put an end to conservative newspapers because the so-called journalism schools began edging out center-right people and making sure only left-wingers would be graduated into the profession.

Then, nearly every paper “endorsed” the Democrat candidate.

Now, readers simply don’t care who newspapers endorse.

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