If there was ever a media-made president, it had to be Andrew Jackson. Schlesinger, Arthur M. Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 17641776. The New York penny press also spawned a crop of millionaire celebrity editors who were considerably better known than most of the high-ranking political officeholders of the day. Kensington voters literally have a Labour MP to vote for. #GE2019 @Femi_Sorry t.co/HV8nFTBU1t", "Great to have the support of actor and Battersea resident @PaapaEssiedu today. Phillips, Kim Tousley. t.co/HEPO9degDt", "I'm rarely (party) political, but it will be a pleasure to vote in Oxford West & Abingdon for @laylamoran - we need scientists like her in parliament, and she's been a good friend to research in her two years in the house so far. Without newspapers, a group of politicians or activists were nothing but "uninfluential atoms," one of Aaron Burr's supporters wrote, with "no rallying point" or visible public presence. t.co/mpRWwW4xAq", "Stockport's Labour MP for over 25 years throws support behind Lib Dem candidate", "I'm honoured to have the support of Steve Kemp, former General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, in my bid to be re-elected as MP for Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove. A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy. ", "Remember to #VoteLabour today and kick the Islamophobic #Conservatives OUT. BENNETT, JAMES GORDON The early Congresses wrote the founders' reliance on newspapers into national policy when they created favorable postage rates for newspapers, arranged to pay certain newspapers to reprint the laws of the United States, and codified the long-standing custom of allowing newspaper printers to exchange newspapers with each other through the mail without charge. From 1800 on, it was more or less accepted that no serious political movement or candidacy could afford to be without a newspaper network like Jefferson's. Very proud to endorse her! ", "This is unbelievable.. a Labour MP, three weeks before the election, who has absolutely no clue what his own party's position is on Brexit. The new mass-circulation papers bragged that they had opened up newspaper reading to the masses for the first time and made the press a greater force for political and cultural democracy than ever before. The tabloids (Sun, Express, Mirror The need for local journalism has not changed over time, but the economic dynamics capable of sustaining a profitable model for local journalism have. The issue is that Chinese state media, which isn't really beholden to resource constraints or audience feedback, can churn out a large volume of propaganda on a conspiracy it wants to promote. Grassroots democracy probably suffered as a result. Check how to #TacticalVote on Thursday to stop Boris Johnson in your area: t.co/l8EjW98wpl t.co/xsBDB1gkEX", ". Tax offsets for eligible production expenditures incurred by newsrooms could help defray the costs associated with original reporting. Vote smart. We need MP's like Ali that understand & will fight for us! t.co/MrkrP0cBxo", "Delighted to receive this ringing endorsement from #Inverclyde own @martin_compston earlier today. Here's our Pluto General Election reading list: www.plutobooks.com/blog/2019-general-election-reading-list/ pic.twitter.com/BOj28AcxIC", "Communists for Labour victory and mass campaigning", "Welcome to the fight of our lives! Telephone: (408) 938-7700 Founder of one of the most extensive newspaper empir, 50 W. San Fernando Street, Suite 1500 Given a choice between the Tories & Labour, Finchley and Golders Green would vote Tory! Endorsed tactical voting "in an effort to deny Mr Johnson that majority.". Good luck to her on the campaign she will be fantastic for Walsallpic.twitter.com/Yamq1CqX3b", "UKIP and pro-Brexit campaigners back Tory in Warrington South", "#FFS joined @DavidLammy in #Watford today to campaign for @Chris4Watford! t.co/1ZlIW0P9J7", "Thank you Ian! There is a serious effort underway to save local news, as shown by the Knight Foundations recent $300 million, five-year commitment, and our research shows yet another reason to prioritize these efforts. He needed a surrogate, so he and James Madison helped create a newspaper, Philip Freneau's National Gazette, to lead the public charge against Hamilton's policies. Martin Van Buren's Bucktail faction eventually won the state back, partly through assiduous efforts to develop a Bucktail newspaper network. The Brexit Party has lost wind since the Conservatives have moved closer to Nigel Farages position. ." ", "General election: Fight for a Corbyn-led Labour government! And well done @LibDems who have pulled out of @LukePollard seat in Plymouth to campaign for her and give him a freer run. Re-elect him", "Lib Dems planning 'remain alliance' to take up to 60 Tory seats", "@AliCamps My MP, I'm proud to say, Brighton Pavillion, and it's and easy vote for me this time @CarolineLucas", "If you live in #BristolNorthWest, you have to ask yourself whether you care more about party politics, or stopping Brexit. But The New York Times or other credible, authoritative, independent sources are going to debunk a conspiracy theory like theFort Detrick conspiracy once and theyre going to move on. Local weekly newspapers were relatively cheap and easy to start; with a one-room shop and some basic equipment, a lone printer and one or two boy apprentices could manage it, and start-up costs could stay in three figures, within reach of an ordinary workman who saved a little money or borrowed from local politicians. A tax on large online platforms for displaying publishers content would force companies that aggregate and distribute publishers content to share their profits with content creators. #VoteTactically. A temporary exemption from antitrust laws would give news publishers the ability to collectively negotiate with large online platforms and create a fairer, more balanced relationship between publishers and platforms. t.co/eDAl91RUy7", "In Putney, LibDems please vote Labour. Vote Labour on 12 December for real change and the investment the country needs. Why boot out someone doing a damn good job.. eh Cambridge folk!? This w/end we're supporting the best pro-PV candidate in these key marginals: South Cambridgeshire (@IanSollom) Cheadle (@ThomasMorrison) Lewes (@OliHenman) Winchester (@PaulaWFerguson Portsmouth South (@StephenMorganMP) Birmingham Edgbaston (@PreetKGillMP) 1/2 t.co/TKJLCLySiY", "It was freezing in Birmingham Yardley last week but worth it to campaign for Jess Phillips, who has spoken up without fear or favour on so many issues and speaks for so many of us on just how much needs to change t.co/AzZDrzt80Q", "Donated. The trend exploded during the infamous "Log Cabin Campaign" of 1840, when the new Whig Party, armed with generous funds from the business interests that tended to favor it over the Democrats, created nearly one hundred campaign newspapers across the country as part of their effort to give their candidate, Virginia-born aristocrat William Henry Harrison, the image of a hard-drinking, hard-fighting frontier Indian fighter like Andrew Jackson. Vote LibDem. At the same time, American voters and political elites are more polarized than ever. t.co/nw0nkLSmSe", "A vote for the planet means a vote for Labour or the Greens | George Monbiot", "Stormzy and Kano join other Grime4Corbyn artists to sign letter backing Labour", "The Cause of Labour Is the Hope of the World", "Exclusive: New letter supporting Jeremy Corbyn signed by Roger Waters, Robert Del Naja and more", "Letter: We stand with Jeremy Corbyn just as he always stood with us", "Who the biggest names in showbiz are voting for in the general election", "UK Election: Hugh Grant, Steve Coogan, John Cleese & Alan Sugar Among Celebrities To Wade In Ahead Of December 12 Vote", "More musicians pledge their support to Labour and Jeremy Corbyn", "#Grime4Corbyn relaunch in unexpected boost for Labour", "Jeremy Corbyn's UK spending blitz wins backing from economists", "The UK's failing economic model demands such bold ideas", "Coogan and Klein lead cultural figures backing Corbyn and Labour", "Vote for hope and a decent future | Letter", "Rob Delaney calls NHS 'pinnacle of human achievement' in pro-Labour video", "Danny DeVito backs Jeremy Corbyn in next election: 'I'm a big fan', "Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis urges festival fans to vote Labour in election", "I've seen @UKLabour in a much better place but after much careful consideration I will still be voting for them . He studies American government and political communication with an emphasis on political behavior, campaign strategy and the media. We collected data on newspapers closures in the United States from 2009-2012, a time when 110 papers were shuttered. t.co/iJkVexU9LH", "Should this be DiEM25's stance regarding the UK General Election 2019? March 16, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT. @LaylaMoran has been an excellent local MP and passionate campaigner for Remain. t.co/0nHJMlsVcn", "General election: SNP's Kenny MacAskill just got an invaluable endorsement", "Hello all my fellow East Grinstead folks. Lots of greens going to vote Labour here! Independent. @schooltruth and I heading there via a bit of @lucianaberger helping. 1/3 t.co/WiGfaYcqNq", "Luciana Berger aims to win over Remainers, one lounge at a time", "If I lived in North London I'd vote for Luciana Berger. t.co/PoFdxOeWHx", "Unless you're in Falkirk, with no Labour candidate owing to anti-semitism. If the Tories win, a lot of people will get a lot dead", "Stormzy and Akala among ten musicians who sign letter endorsing Jeremy Corbyn", "Eddie Izzard visits Rhyl in support of Labour's Chris Ruane", "General election: Celebrities reveal who they're backing", "People are passionate about politics again and they want radical solutions", "Dua Lipa urges followers to vote Labour in general election", "A list of the celebrities backing Labour in today's general election", "Stars rally behind Corbyn as 'last stand' for England", "Miriam Margolyes: Labour saving NHS more important than Brexit and antisemitism", "40 celebrities write open letter backing Labour in the election - see the list", "I'll take Labour dithering over Conservative cruelty any day | George Monbiot", "Boris Johnson wants to destroy the Britain I love. Don't just think of the party, think of the individual candidates:https://new.womensequality.org.uk/crossparty", "The Lib Dems should stand down completely in Canterbury | Sandi Toksvig", "Please north Ayrshire, love yourself enough to vote for @Dr_PhilippaW when the time comes in December xxxx", "Dear Labour voters of Chelsea and Fulham, do this for your country. If people want to fight back against the polarization that has infected our politics, part of the answer may be on their doorstep. By and large: The Guardian leans heavily to the left( Liberal and Labour. The Daily Mirror is solid Labour. The Sun, principally Conservative. The In Scotland, the Scottish Editions of ALL the papers mentioned in the other answers support the LibLabCon Unionist coalition against Scotlands i It is instructive to note that the Nigerian civil service is politicized to the extent that most top bureaucrats and junior officers openly support political parties of their choices. It's time for change #AltrinchamSaleWest #Labour t.co/Qc4Bp7C4wa", "Full list of 60 'Remain alliance' seats revealed as Lib Dems, Greens and Plaid Cymru agree pact to stop Brexit", "THE RENEW PARTY TO STAND DOWN IN KEY UNITE TO REMAIN SEATS", "So how are we all voting? Well if you live in East Devon you're lucky because you have a fantastic Independent Remain supporting alternative. But i don't live there and so I will be voting for Labour. By the 1830s, journalists were starting to run for office in their own right. He will NOT waver in his determination to get us out #genuinebrexiteer t.co/tWgDaCZ5km", "Really pleased my friend and former Labour MP @CatharineHoey came to Bournemouth West to advise Labour voters who support getting Brexit done to vote for me on Thursday in this constituency. This latter practice allowed a host of small weekly newspapers, each with a circulation from a few hundred to a few thousand, to form together a kind of national network. Their disappearance has left millions of Americans without a vital source of local news and deprived communities of an institution essential for exposing wrongdoing and encouraging civic engagement. Heres what it might look like: 28% Labor (working class center-left) 21% Conservative (traditional-right, pre-Trump) 19% Nationalist (basically Trump) 12% Acela Party (socially liberal, globalist, fiscally centrist) 10% Green (basically AOC) Save to Favorites. Encyclopedia.com. ", "Team #FFS joined @HendonLabour & @MiddlesexSU students today to campaign for @DavidPintoD David needs just 1000 votes to flip #Hendon & help deliver a #FinalSay Parliament. #GE2019 @Femi_Sorry t.co/0eO8OF5oML", "Vote for Phillip Lee in Wokingham to OUST John Redwood! All news outlets have a bias; be it left, right or center. The business model is: the more eyeballs you get the more you get paid. In the past jou ", "Why we're backing Simon Letts in Southampton Itchen", "Team #FFS are proud to be out campaigning for Daisy Cooper in St Albans today. News for All: America's Coming-of-Age with the Press. Let's vote tactically and get that smug fucker outtwitter.com/josielong/status/1191091644277366785 ", "Proud to say I've (postal) voted @labourlewis for Norwich South, and will be out canvassing with him* in the morning. What about all youse? I and everyone else in Lambeth should vote (Labour! We urge everyone to #VoteLabour tomorrow t.co/pDoG7Gpagl", "Editorial: What Elections Mean Socialist Party of Great Britain", "This is the most important election in modern history it's time to take sides", "gal-dem is backing Labour for survival and happiness", "General election 2019: We want you to vote Labour", "In the most important general election for decades, why celebrities & brands can no longer hide their political allegiances - by @nrolah #VoteLabour t.co/4aSIrni3sx t.co/BpPmTXa3tG", "Momentum builds behind Labour campaign - keep up the fight! #VoteLabour! Jefferson, however, could not lead the opposition himself and still remain within the administration or retain his status as a respectable statesman. No. None at all. And thats not just the UK, thats anywhere in the world. The nearest youll get is the Financial Times, whose customers demand in In which case, vote for your pro-EU SNP candidate who will in turn give the UK opposition its best chance. To a very large degree, party politics in this period was newspaper based. #VoteTactically #GE2019 @Femi_Sorry t.co/k8ebBm6OCW", "Calling Lab/Greens of St Ives. Renationalise Royal Mail. I'm proud to support her and call her my friend. What other answers so far have neglected to join up is the readership covered by the various English newspapers listed. Looking at the pro-Tory, pr t.co/kO2coFArA3", "We agree with @BestForBritain that anyone in #bishopauckland who wants to avert a disastrous hard Brexit should back @HelenGoodmanMP With tactical voting in key seats across the country we win a #PeoplesVote on the 12th December. An example of the best of what politics and politicians should be t.co/ObrBMBeby5", "Fascinating few hours with @schooltruth out canvassing for @lucianaberger in Finchley and Golders Green. This difference is more than enough to swing an election outcome: in 2018, the U.S. House races in Minnesotas 1st district, Utahs 4th district and Illinoiss 13th district were all decided by less than that margin. #GE2019 @Femi_Sorry t.co/GSf1ZTb6Al", "This is absolutely disgraceful and shows @andreajenkyns cares nothing for our teaching assistants that literally keep schools running. Please make sure you vote. Their bar-chart was hot nonsense, and the electoral maths are that the non-Tory vote should get behind a Labour candidate", Siobhan Thompson, mysterious European heiress [@vornietom], "Hello if you live in my constituency (My MP is famous cunt Jacob Rees-Mogg) this is EXTRA important, even if you wouldn't regularly vote Labour. Understanding exactly the role that newspaper editors played in his campaigns, Jackson publicly expressed his gratitude to the newspapers that supported him by appointing at least seventy journalists to federal offices and allowing several key editors to play crucial roles in his administration. An even older pal joined for a bit of door knocking t.co/nvXwftAGh7", "WATCH: Ross Kemp joins the Labour campaign in Wolverhampton", Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Endorsements_in_the_2019_United_Kingdom_general_election&oldid=1117560719, Political endorsements in the United Kingdom, Articles with dead external links from January 2021, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2021, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, "To those candidates who share [internationalist, pro business and liberal] values and are ready to fight for them the FT lends its wholehearted support.". Hearst, William Randolph The past few decades have been similarly tragic for American local media: longstanding newspapers, big and small, have closed in unprecedented numbers; Americans are turning away from local news sources and towards online and nationally televised programs to learn about politics; and even local television news is focusing on national partisanship and politics, as Sinclair Broadcasting acquires more affiliates. Propaganda and the American Revolution, 17631783. ." Create your free account or Sign in to continue. t.co/JlbMHrzZ4H", "I'm proud to have been part of the @MoreUnitedUK Network. romantic restaurants in hollywood fl. Humphrey, Carol Sue. Which British newspaper is the least biased? According to actual polls, The Independent. Which I suppose is quite fitting, isnt it? Readers of local newspapers feel more attached to their communities. window.__simplechart_public_path__ = window.__simplechart_public_path__ || It's up to you", "Harry Dunn's parents urge voters to unseat Dominic Raab in general election", "Live: Hugh Grant out canvassing in Walton with Lib Dems", "Good on @monicabeharding, standing against Raab. Mine is Brighton Kemptown, a Lab/Con marginal (Green & Lib vote is tiny), so it's easy. The LibDems have brought in a candidate to stand against her which will split the vote. Cambridge, Mass. Meanwhile, news consumers have become less inclined to follow local sources of news, instead preferring to read, listen, and watch content from outlets focused on national news coverage. Facebook and Google aggregate and distribute news content which helps publishers reach news consumers, but they also serve as news publishers greatest competitors in the digital advertising market. More Americans say they trust congressional Democrats over Trump to handle the nations gun laws, 51 percent to 36 percent, with independents siding with