Kulturkampf

[benji]

I wonder how common news-paper endorsements are around the world? (A quick google search showed that it happens in the UK too). To me this seems completely foreign and kind of goes against the point of a publication that tries to be objective.

Pretty much every American newspaper, and most every older UK one, were founded as partisan papers. When the "objective" journalism trend came around, they didn't actually stop, they just claimed that siloing off editorial/opinion meant you should trust both the news side and the editorial side more than previously.

The actual effect was more that the papers seem incoherent as you move between the sections.

I'd argue, not that this is original to me, that most news organizations dropped open partisanship for hidden ideological bias. This makes them appear non-partisan while doing nothing to prioritize truth. Hence, why I've been untroubled about their turn back towards open partisanship.

But they're getting savaged by the audience they deliberately primed in a way that was obvious to foresee.