This just in … The Houston Chronicle has endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton for the presidency of the United States.
The Chronicle said in its editorial that it normally waits until the end of the campaign to make its recommendation. It backed Mitt Romney in 2012.
This year, it’s different, according to the Chronicle. The paper’s editorial board has made up its mind. The nation needs a “steady hand” in “these unsettling times.” The hand doesn’t belong to Republican nominee Donald J. Trump.
I don’t know why I should care, but I do wonder who will get the backing of my local newspaper, the Amarillo Globe-News, where I worked for nearly 18 years. I quit my job there at the end of August 2012.
I have no contact with the AG-N’s editorial board, which comprises the publisher and its director of commentary. I can only offer an educated guess how they’ll go, given the paper’s history of backing Republicans for president — and given the paper’s corporate ownership, which has a visceral loathing of Hillary Clinton.
My guess is that a lot of newspapers are going to weigh in early — and perhaps often — on this race. They’ll decide, perhaps as the Houston Chronicle has decided, that there’s no reason to wait. Whether they’re favoring Clinton or Trump, let’s get it out there on the record, they might surmise.
As for the Amarillo Globe-News, they’re likely to preach to the proverbial choir by backing Trump, who’s likely to carry on the Republican tradition of capturing a majority of votes in Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle.
The serious stunner would be if the G-N backs Clinton.
Don’t look for hell to freeze over.
My interest will lie in how the paper makes its case for Trump and how much of this individual’s record it will ignore.
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John, Why do you care?
My curiosity is getting the better of me. It’s not that any of this matters in a real sense. I worked there for quite a few years, so I feel somewhat invested in the institution. If the G-N does what I expect it to do, then I’ll be curious to read the paper’s rationale.