The 2016 Presidential Election Trainwreck

[SeattleUte]

To each his own. For me, it blurs the distinction between news and opinion. The internet already does that, and it's easier to access. Why would traditional journalism, whose sole claim to relevancy in this current climate is legitimacy, do something to damage that?

Grow up or get over yourself. It says right on the front it's April 2017. There's nothing even slightly ethically ambiguous about this.

[All-American]

Grow up or get over yourself. It says right on the front it's April 2017. There's nothing even slightly ethically ambiguous about this.

At the very least, you all should reserve judgment until after Sunday, April 9, 2017. For all you know, this is the exact page they will run and it will be Johnny-on-the-spot. That would do wonders for the paper's credibility, I would think.

[Omaha 680]

The Hillary and Bernie TV ad saturation has started in NY.

[Uncle Ted]

To each his own. For me, it blurs the distinction between news and opinion. The internet already does that, and it's easier to access. Why would traditional journalism, whose sole claim to relevancy in this current climate is legitimacy, do something to damage that?

I like what the Globe did compared to what other newspapers do and write up some boring endorsement of a candidate. The Globe's anti-endorsement of Drumpf has a lot of entertainment value... and thanks to the internet I don't even have to spend $0.50 and kill a tree to read it!

https://assets.documentcloud.org/doc...front-page.pdf

Thanks Al Gore!

[Northwestcoug]

Grow up or get over yourself. It says right on the front it's April 2017. There's nothing even slightly ethically ambiguous about this.

Who said anything about ethics? That wasn't unethical; it was just stupid. The Globe and every other paper is struggling to maintain legitimacy as news organizations. For years they have been claiming that journalism is a profession, and that most Internet reporters and bloggers cannot be trusted to give unbiased reporting. If that's true, they should be held to a higher standard. Their faux Trump headlines did not meet that standard.

[creekster]

Grow up or get over yourself.

The funniest thing in this thread is you telling someone to get over himself. Physician, heal thyself.

[creekster]

There is precedent for opinion on the front page, even cartoons. I think the globe is trying to sell papers. That's why they did that.

Obviously thy are trying to sell papers. But that is the point. Rather than maintain even a veneer of being serious journalists, of being the type of organization who brings a weighty and critical analysis of issues to the paper, they have devolved to become a lukewarm mimic of the Onion. The Boston Globe should not be a bad example of the National Lampoon.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Meh. Newspapers are dying. I don't blame them for resorting to a few gimmicks.

[myboynoah]

Meh. Newspapers are dying. I don't blame them for resorting to a few gimmicks.

lol

[Uncle Ted]

If Drumpf supporters are like his kids then Kasich or Cruz may actually win his home state... what a bunch of dummies:

Two of Trump's Kids Missed NY Registration Deadline, Can't Vote for Dad

Donald Trump has a big lead in polling in his home state of New York, but he won't be getting the votes of two of his biggest advocates there: His kids.


Trump conceded Monday that two of his children - Eric and Ivanka Trump - failed to register as Republicans in the state in time to be eligible to vote for him in New York's April 19 primary.


"They were unaware of the rules and they didn't register in time," Trump said on Fox News. "So they feel very, very guilty. They feel very guilty but it's fine."


The deadline for new voters to register to vote in New York's closed primary was March 25, and the deadline to change party affiliation was back in October.


"Eric and Ivanka, I guess, won't be voting," Trump said.


Trump's campaign has been plagued in recent weeks by poor organization in local and state-level Republican conventions, where delegates to the Republican National Convention are selected.


In several states over the weekend, the delegates chosen at the party gatherings were Ted Cruz's loyalists, who could support the Texas senator on the convention floor if the nomination race goes to a second ballot.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016...-can-t-n553991

[byu71]

If Drumpf supporters are like his kids then Kasich or Cruz may actually win his home state... what a bunch of dummies:



http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016...-can-t-n553991

Wow, this is bad. I made sure as part of my kids turning 18, we immediately went and registered them as republicans. As organized and successful man as Trump is, I would have thought he would have done the same thing.

[SeattleUte]

Meh. Newspapers are dying. I don't blame them for resorting to a few gimmicks.

I think it's great--nothing like demonstrating the reduction ad absurdum of these dishonest populist promises to expose them as absurd and disingenuous. But now they need to do one for BS.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

If Drumpf supporters are like his kids then Kasich or Cruz may actually win his home state... what a bunch of dummies:



http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016...-can-t-n553991

Don Jr's inheritance plan coming together nicely.

[Omaha 680]

If Drumpf supporters are like his kids then Kasich or Cruz may actually win his home state... what a bunch of dummies:



http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016...-can-t-n553991

You don't have to re-register in NY unless you have not voted in two consecutive federal elections. Eric and Ivanka Trump share your views, non-voters of the board.

[BlueK]

You don't have to re-register in NY unless you have not voted in two consecutive federal elections. Eric and Ivanka Trump share your views, non-voters of the board.

They were already registered to vote. They just didn't meet the October 2015 deadline to change their registration from non-affiliated with a party to republican. This may end up costing Trump quite a few votes in that a lot of his voters haven't been republicans before and probably missed that October deadline also.