I could not believe that a daily newspaper in a city the size of Las Vegas (3 million) would endorse Donald Trump for president. But the Las Vegas Review-Journal did on Oct. 16, 2024. As a result, I've canceled my subscription.
We moved to Vegas about a year ago. As a former journalism student in high school and an English/journalism major in college, I've always supported my "morning newspaper." To me, reading the daily is the essential way to learn about the city and state you live in.
I am not a screaming liberal. In fact, I'm a moderate voter who votes for the better candidate, not for the political party. But the right-wing bent to the Review-Journal's reporting made me curious. I'd always thought Las Vegas was a "purple" town, so I looked up the newspaper's history. Turns out, I'd subscribed to a rather dishonest rag.
According to Wikipedia:
Sheldon Adelson estate ownership
"When the paper was sold in 2015, it was initially unclear who the buyer was. The purchaser was a limited liability company, News + Media Capital Group LLC, and the only name listed on the documents was Michael Schroeder, a publisher of four small regional newspapers in Connecticut. At a December 10 staff meeting informing the Review-Journal staff that the paper had been sold, Schroeder was introduced as the manager. He refused to say who the owners of News + Media were, saying that employees should "focus on [their] jobs...and don't worry about who [the owners] are."[18] Jason Taylor, the Review-Journal's publisher, said only that the ownership included "multiple owner/investors, that some are from Las Vegas, and that in face-to-face meetings he has been assured that the group will not meddle in the newspaper’s editorial content.”[17]
"There were widespread rumors that the primary buyer was Sheldon Adelson, and a week later three Review-Journal reporters confirmed that the purchase had been orchestrated by Adelson's son-in-law Patrick Dumont on Adelson's behalf.[19] A month before the new owner was revealed, three reporters at the newspaper received an assignment from corporate management: Spend two weeks monitoring the activity of three Clark County judges. One of the judges was District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez, who was hearing a long-running wrongful termination lawsuit filed against Adelson and his company,[20] a lawsuit alleging that Adelson's Macao casino, Sands Macao, was connected to the Chinese Triads.[21]
"In January a set of editorial principles were drawn up and publicized to ensure the newspaper's independence and to deal with possible conflicts of interest involving Adelson's ownership. In February Craig Moon, a veteran of the Gannett organization, was announced as the new publisher and promptly withdrew those principles from publication. He also began to personally review, edit, and sometimes kill stories about an Adelson-promoted proposal for the future Las Vegas Raiders football stadium.[22] In the months since, reporters say that stories about Adelson, and particularly about an ongoing lawsuit involving his business dealings in Macau, have been heavily edited by top management.[23]
"The new ownership triggered numerous departures. On December 23 the paper's editor Mike Hengel stepped down in a "voluntary buyout".[24] Many reporters and editors left the newspaper citing "curtailed editorial freedom, murky business dealings and unethical managers."[25] Longtime columnist John L. Smith resigned after he was told he could no longer write anything about Adelson, a frequent focus of his reporting up until then.[25] Within six months, all three of the reporters who broke the story of Adelson's ownership had left the paper.[25]
Source: Wikipedia. Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Review-Journal to find out more.
And on another Wikipedia page, there's a lot more. Miriam Adelson, widow of Sheldon Adelson, is an Israeli Zionist and major-major-major donor to the Trump campaign, both in 2016 and currently. Worth about $32 billion (wow!), Mrs. Adelson donated more than all women combined to Trump's 2016 campaign and to mostly Republican causes. And he thanked her by awarding her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This award was designed to honor individuals who have made great contributions to either the United States or to the world, not simply contributions to the coffers of the president. But we all know Donald Trump, or should. He's all about money. And himself.
Now you know why the Las Vegas Review-Journal endorsed Donald Trump for president.
Do you think the owners of daily and national media should determine endorsements, or do you think this should be the role of the editorial board? I think the latter.
Please take a moment to read more about Mrs. Adelson at this Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Adelson. I find it astonishing that any Jewish person would support a fascist like Trump. But this shows how Zionism can leap just one step over the line.
So Now, Where Can I Get my City, State, and National News?
Not only have I canceled the Las Vegas Review-Journal, but also The Washington Post, a liberal rag that now has Jeff Bezos calling the shots. He's not a journalist but a tech guru who's trying to build an empire by bringing in questionable editorial leadership to the Post.
After I cancelled the Review Journal, a neighbor told me about the Las Vegas Sun, which I'd seen as a section inside the Las Vegas Review Journal. I did not realize the Sun is published by The Greenspun Corporation via a joint operating agreement with the Review-Journal. It was really odd to see the differing points of view on Oct. 16, with the main editorial page of the Review-Journal praising Trump, while the much thinner Las Vegas Sun — tacked at the digital end of the Review-Journal — endorsed Kamala Harris. The Sun's political bent leans to left, so I've signed up for that subscription, although I truly prefer my media to be "fair and balanced," and not in a fake Fox News way.
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