Today’s Wall Street Journal’s “Notable & Quotable” section features a quote from founder of the USA Today newspaper, Richard Benedetto. He was writing in the Utica (N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch on October 17:
USA Today, a newspaper I helped found in 1982, and which enjoyed a reputation for honest and fair reporting, last month departed from 34 years of no-endorsement policy and tlad readers, “Don’t vote for Trump.” It was violation of its founding principles.
It is not the job of the news media to tell people how to vote. Syracuse University Newhouse School Dean Wesley Clark said this 46 years ago to budding young reporters:
“Your job is to give people good, solid, fair information. They can figure out what to do with it.
I am proud to be the publisher of a newspaper that does believe in providing North Carolinians with good, solid, and fair information–the Carolina Journal. And, yes, our readers can figure it out.
