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Editorial Board of the newspaper New York Times published a short message on the cover with a request to American citizens Vote this Tuesday to “end the Trump era.”
“You already know Donald Trump. He is incapable of leading. Watch this. Listen to those who know you best. “He tried to disrupt the election and continues to pose a threat to democracy,” the newspaper said in its four-paragraph report, full of underlined words that refer to the media’s own stories about the leadership of the former Republican president, who already ruled from 2017 to 2021.
The newspaper adds that Trump “helped overturn Roe (on pregnant women’s freedom to choose abortion)with dire consequences. Trump’s corruption and lawlessness go beyond elections: it’s his ethics. He lies without limits. If he gets re-elected, the GOP won’t stop him.”
The GOP candidate who will face Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election. “He will use the government to persecute his opponents. “It will apply a brutal policy of mass deportations,” says Time.
And also an adventure that “It will hurt the poor, the middle class and employers. Another Trump term would damage the climate, destroy alliances and strengthen autocrats. “Americans must demand better,” the prestigious newspaper emphasizes.
American media usually position themselves and editorially support one of the candidates in presidential elections and New York Times He supported Democrats in previous elections.
This tradition of taking a stand or publishing an editorial in support of one of the candidates was broken a few days ago by another prestigious newspaper: Washington Postwhose owner is millionaire Jeff Bezos, creator of the giant Amazon, decided not to support any of the candidates.
In an opinion column, Bezos assured that most Americans “believes the media is biased” and ruled that the decision not to endorse the political candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump “is correct.”
A newspaper that had a very hard editorial line against Trump.supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, both clashed with the Republican tycoon.
This decision created problems for the newspaper with loss of thousands of subscribers and resignations among its editorial staff.
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Los Angeles Times He also didn’t want to position himself in favor of any candidate in this close election.
Meanwhile the magazine New Yorker was one of the first media outlets to endorse a Democratic candidate remembering the storming of the Capitol in 2021 and accusing Trump of being an “agent of chaos” and an “enemy of liberal democracy.”