N.Y. Daily News To Endorse Obama

[nyhuskyfan]

Heard it on the radio, so there's no link yet. It's a good one - the Times was a given, and the Post was a given for McCain, but the Daily News is a paper that could go either way.

Here's an E&P link:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003875519

[JI7]

1. which major papers have endorsed McCain so far ?

and i don't mean shit like newsmax.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Here is a listof the top 100 papers in the US and who they have endorsed, if anyone.

http://www.demconwatchblog.com/2008/09/presidential-newspaper-endorsement-list.html

[progressiveforever]

2. No, I thought the Daily News would go for McCain

If this is true, this is a major score

[nyhuskyfan]

3. Added the E&P link above

They were a Bush paper in 2004

[Kdillard]

4. Yippee. I was wondering which way they would go.

[Curtland1015]

5. Dailiy News is "fairly" left leaning...

I had little doubt they'd pick Obama.

[Renew Deal]

9. They are owned by Tribune and endorsed Bush in 2004

They're not that left leaning.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. Strange. the News was once the real RW rag in NYC and the

Then Murdoch bought the Post...and I am not sure what happened to the News, but their roles seem to have somewhat reversed. I say "somewhat" because the News is till a rag, just not quite as bad as the Post.

[RoccoR5955]

10. I remember a time when the News was "liberal" and the Mirror was "conservative"

The NY Times was a conservative paper, and the Post was just a rag used for wrapping fish. That was a long, long time ago, when I was knee high to a grasshopper.

[elocs]

7. Yes, I read that here last night. n/t