It's Monday, October 28, 2024.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

For the better course of the last century or so, American newspapers have often offered what

amounts to endorsements in major political races, and that of course would include the biggest

race of them all which is the American presidency but the big news in the last

few days has been that two major newspapers and I I mean two major newspapers, the Los Angeles Times

and the Washington Post, have both announced that they are going to decline to endorse either

candidate in the 2024 presidential election, and both have indicated that it is

their intention that the papers no longer do such endorsements, although the question is

still open as to whether or not both papers will offer some kind of endorsement when it comes to statewide elections or other local matters.

But the fact is this is making big news not only only big news, but big waves. Giant controversy. And of course the expectation

was that both of these liberal papers would endorse the Democratic nominee for President

Kamala Harris. It's actually apparent that Kamala Harris

expected both of these editorial boards to offer their endorsement and one of the

first things I want to say is I'm not sure they would have mattered much anyway, but it

tells you a lot that these endorsements that didn't happen matter a lot to the dominant

media class itself and also to the Democratic nominee for president.

That's the class that's supposed to stick together.

And in this case, not so much.

But you know this raises some massive issues that we get to think about simply because of this controversy.

First of all, what about the editorial board endorsement?

Well, one of the things you need to remember is that the newspaper business as we know it today

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