Newspapers began endorsing candidates at a time when objectivity was not the goal, nor was it the norm. Owned by power- and money-hungry political influencers, these papers sought to push the agenda of the man who paid the bills.
At the Chicago Tribune in 1936, that man was Col. Robert McCormick. As a known Republican, McCormick openly supported the Republican presidential candidate, Alf Landon, who was running against Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
And since McCormick supported Landon, so did the paper. In fact, the paper so strongly supported Landon, according to a Time Magazine article, that 10 days before the election, switchboard operators answered the phone "Hello, Chicago Tribune. Only 10 days left to save the American way of life."
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