Inside the paper…there’s the feeling that “we have two tough picks to make and we’re taking a pass,” and the paper is less relevant because of it.
Five years ago, a Journal Sentinel staffer told Milwaukee Magazine that “we should endorse for president or get out of the editorial business.” In the same media column, the head of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee journalism department said: “If you’re not going to editorialize on the most important topic of the day, and if you’re not going to take a stand in the most important presidential election of our lives, what’s the point?”
Via ROMENESKO.COM.