Irish Examiner view: A bad look for American broadsheets

Few know endorsements traditionally mirror the stance of the owner or publisher and are concocted by an editorial board which is divorced from the day-to-day operations of the newspaper’s newsroom

In our media-saturated world, people are not short of opinions to think about what has been voiced or published about any particular US presidential candidate. File Picture: AP

There are many arguments to be made as to why influential independent American newspapers should not be in the business of endorsing one or the other of the two candidates ahead of next week’s presidential election.

Such nominations have long been part of the ritual of US elections and increasingly in this part of the world, particularly so when partisan newspaper owners like to be thought of as influential. The truth of the matter is they are seldom significant and rarely instrumental as a deciding factor.

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