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I'm more sympathetic than most people here to the idea that newspapers shouldn't endorse candidates. But is the message clear enough to have an impact? The AIs sort of tease them out, but also get a little confused.
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Matthew Yglesias
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Just don’t call it an endorsement nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opi
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I don’t get why they just didn’t endorse Lander other than to punish him for his strategic alignment with Mamdani
Journalists (more accurately, editors) used to attempt for an informal “Chinese wall” between news and opinion This breakdown means readers should simply treat everything as opinion, and we’re all worse off for it. It’s a shame journalism decided professionalism wasn’t important
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generally sane people are legitimately going to lose their mind over things like this, this is just the beginning