[Vision2020] Stunned again, but pleasantly

[Saundra Lund]

This is really good news!  I don’t remember when I learned that SR “endorsements” were nothing more than the publisher’s opinion, but it was an eye-opener then and I’m glad it’s gone now.

Saundra

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020, at 12:47 PM, Don Coombs wrote:
> Yesterday I posted that I was stunned when the Spokesman Review publisher, after specifying the many ways that Donald Trump was an abysmal person and president, endorsed him (I summarize here in my own words) because "he would make the economy hum again."
> 
> Today Rob Curley (the editor, not the publisher) is on the front page saying:
> "...our opinions really should be from our community and we should continue to throw out traditions like unsigned editorials. When you get rid of the things that no longer matter, you can zero in on the things that are essential.

> Getting better isn’t just about what you do, but about what you don’t do.

> So we are no longer running unsigned editorials and we are dropping endorsements.

> *  *  *

> Rob Curley's job as editor is to keep the newspaper a viable journalistic enterprise and to even improve it. He has just done that.

> 

> --Don Coombs

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