“The Chicago Tribune endorsed Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson on Friday as a ‘principled option’ beyond the typical red-blue binary. . .
“This recommendation follows a growing trend among right-leaning or moderate newspapers — which don’t like Trump but generally cannot bring themselves to support Clinton — to urge their readers to vote for Johnson.
“The Caledonian-Record, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Winston-Salem Journal, the New Hampshire Union Leader, the Detroit News and now the Chicago Tribune have all endorsed Johnson.”
In the past the news that major metropolitan newspapers had endorsed the Libertarian Presidential candidate would have made me ecstatic and dancing in the streets with elation. But this is 2016 — the Age of Social Media and the Internet. The bogus LP candidate is the empty suit Gary Johnson, and the impact of the dead tree media upon the electorate is somewhere between negligible and nil.
Once upon a time courageous congressmen and investigative journalists reported on how editorial control of the major elite media was purchased.
Above is the full documentary.
And here is a pertainent blog from the authors of an exceptional book, Hidden History, The Secret Origins of the First World War, outlining the same elite control of the media in the UK at the same time during World War I.
