<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(128, 0, 128);"><div style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(128, 0, 128);">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.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(128, 0, 128);"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(128, 0, 128);">Saundra<br></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(128, 0, 128);"><br></div><div>On Wed, Oct 28, 2020, at 12:47 PM, Don Coombs wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-size:large;">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."<br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-size:large;"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-size:large;">Today Rob Curley (the editor, not the publisher) is on the front page saying:<br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style=""><p class="qt-gmail-abody" style="font-size:20px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:10px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia;"><span class="qt-gmail-Fid_2" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:normal;">"...our opinions really should be from our community and we should continue to throw out traditions like</span><span class="qt-gmail-Fid_2" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:normal;"> unsigned editorials. When you get rid of the things that no longer matter, you can zero in on the things that are essential.</span><br></p><p class="qt-gmail-abody" style="font-size:20px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:10px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia;"><span class="qt-gmail-Fid_2" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:normal;">Getting better isn’t just about what you do, but about what you don’t do.</span><br></p><p class="qt-gmail-abody" style="font-size:20px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:10px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia;"><span class="qt-gmail-Fid_2" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:normal;">So we are no longer running unsigned editorials and we are dropping endorsements.</span><br></p><p class="qt-gmail-abody" style="font-size:20px;margin-top:10px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:10px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia;"><span class="qt-gmail-Fid_2" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:normal;">* * *</span><br></p><p class="qt-gmail-abody" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:15px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:10px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia;"><span class="qt-gmail-Fid_2" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:normal;"><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;">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.</span></span><br></p><p class="qt-gmail-abody" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:15px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:10px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia;"><span class="qt-gmail-Fid_2" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:normal;"><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;"></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-gmail-abody" style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:15px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:10px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia;"><span class="qt-gmail-Fid_2" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:normal;"><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;">--Don Coombs</span></span><br></p></div></div><div>=======================================================<br></div><div>List services made available by First Step Internet,<br></div><div>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br></div><div> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a><br></div><div> mailto:<a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br></div><div>=======================================================<br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(128, 0, 128);"><br></div></body></html>