While saying it’s not an “endorsement” of Donald Trump, a Florida newspaper has admitted they failed to give voters fair and balanced coverage of the presidential election news.
The Daily Commercial issued an open letter to their readers on October 23, describing it as part explanation, part reflection and part mea culpa, after an “uncomfortably sizable number” of readers have written and called in to the paper, criticizing them for getting swept up in the “anti-Trump wave.”
Their excuse is that, unlike larger national daily newspapers, such as the NY Times, USA Today, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, the Daily Commercial has “limited space and resources.”
They said while Hillary Clinton has been bland on the campaign trail, not really giving the media anything to latch on to, that Trump could never seem to stay focused on his message – immigration, jobs and international relations.
Instead, they said he “devoted so much of his air time saying outlandish things and picking fights with anyone, even his own party, who disagreed with him…. In short, he has been his own worst enemy by creating daily controversies with his words and actions, instead of dominating the news cycle with the message that got him this far.”