editorial announcement:<\/a><\/p>\nWhy we are back in the endorsement business<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Chicago Sun-Times will again endorse candidates in elections.<\/em><\/p>\nWe will plunge back in Sunday with an endorsement in the race for governor, and we will make endorsements in the February Chicago municipal elections and other key local races.<\/em><\/p>\nTwo years and nine months ago, we announced we would no longer make endorsements, explaining that we had come to believe they feed a perception of a hidden bias throughout a newspaper. The Chicago Sun-Times has always taken great care to keep its news coverage separate from its editorials and opinion pieces, but we are sensitive to the fact that we operate within an increasingly fragmented and politicized media market.<\/em><\/p>\nOur readers have taken a different view. They have told us they understand the difference between the independence exhibited in the news coverage from opinions expressed in the editorials.<\/em><\/p>\nWe appreciated this feedback and understanding.<\/em><\/p>\nIn the years and months since our decision to stop making endorsements, readers have told us constantly that they found great value in them and wished we would make them again. Our endorsements, they said, offered another frame of reference, fresh analysis and insight. Even when they disagreed with an endorsement, readers said, it was of help to them in exercising the most fundamental right of a democratic republic \u2014 deciding who will represent them. For every reader who has commended us for standing on the sidelines, seemingly hundreds of others have asked, \u201cWho\u2019s gonna tell me how to vote for \u2026?\u201d \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nWhen we stopped making endorsements, part of our rationale was that in this digital age citizens already have access to a vast number of resources for boning up on the issues and candidates and deciding whom to vote for. While this is true, we also know we have something extra to offer, given our deep Chicago and Illinois roots and knowledge, that can\u2019t be found elsewhere. This is especially true for down-ballot local races for which there often is not a wealth of other information or insight.<\/em><\/p>\nThe heart of the matter is that Chicago is our city and Illinois is our state. We belong here, love being here, and want to do our best by our hometown. It is our reason for being. The <\/em>
\nChicago Sun-Times is inextricably and permanently tied to this wonderful town, its fortunes becoming our own fortunes. A newspaper has a special bond with a community, and a unique obligation to be of service.<\/em><\/p>\nIf taxes get too high, it\u2019s our job to say so, for your sake and ours. If taxes must be raised, for that matter, we had better speak up \u2014 for your sake and ours. If our schools are inadequate, we must say so. And we had better make darn sure we are represented by the best possible elected officials, men and women of the highest caliber, looking after the near and long-term needs of the people.<\/em><\/p>\nThe Chicago Sun-Times will make endorsements without fear or favor. We will immerse ourselves in the issues and in the qualifications of the candidates, seek the views of a broad range of experts and thought leaders, offer the best possible analysis and, finally, give you our take on who deserves your vote.<\/em><\/p>\nWith every endorsement we make, we hope to serve our readers better.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After insisting for nearly three years that it would no longer endorse candidates for political office, the Sun-Times is reversing itself and formally backing Republican Bruce Rauner for governor. The Sun-Times announced Friday that its Sunday edition would carry its choice for governor. Although the announcement stopped short of saying whom the newspaper would endorse,... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5343"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5350,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}