Salt Lake Tribune Endorses Who?

[simple]

President! Obama? Could this be true? One of the largest Mormon papers in the world.

[DinarMillionaire]

Come on Simple, you know we need a link, little buddy. Otherwise, it's just hearsay.

We could say the The Pakistani Times endorses Romney. One of the largest Muslim papers in the world? Now would you take that at face value? I didn't think so little buddy.

[mcdinarut]

The slc trib is not a Mormon publication! Just because it is in slc doesn't mean it represents the LDS church. Good try spewing your "simple" crap.

[Rayzur]

Simple... I couldn't believe what I was reading so instead of spouting off about something I knew nothing about, I went in search of information to either deny or confirm what you posted.

Surprisingly.... you are correct Simple... I was a bit dumbstruck and actually had to read the article twice .... and sure enough, you are correct...

So in response to what you wrote, and after looking up the source of the information, it seems that:

McDinarut..... The Salt Lake Tribune in their words is " the official LDS voice for Utah". It is regarded as such by the LDS church. Use your search engine to look it up and you will see it there in black and white.... or blue and white....

For those interested in the article.....

The Salt Lake Tribune

20 October 2012

Tribune endorsement (Barack Obama) goes viral ...

Published on Oct 20, 2012 01:54PM

— Tribune Endorsement: Too Many Mitts — Salt Lake Tribune Editorial

Obama has earned another term

Nowhere has Mitt Romney’s pursuit of the presidency been more warmly welcomed or closely followed than here in Utah. The Republican nominee’s political and religious pedigrees, his adeptly bipartisan governorship of a Democratic state, and his head for business and the bottom line all inspire admiration and hope in our largely Mormon, Republican, business-friendly state.

But it was Romney’s singular role in rescuing Utah’s organization of the 2002 Olympics from a cesspool of scandal, and his oversight of the most successful Winter Games on record, that make him the Beehive State’s favorite adopted son. After all, Romney managed to save the state from ignominy, turning the extravaganza into a showcase for the matchless landscapes, volunteerism and efficiency that told the world what is best and most beautiful about Utah and its people.

In short, this is the Mitt Romney we knew, or thought we knew, as one of us.

Sadly, it is not the only Romney, as his campaign for the White House has made abundantly clear, ...

— Newspapers in Salt Lake City, Tampa and Denver Endorse Obama — The Caucus blog | The New York Times

Mitt Romney may be something of a Utah native son, having helped turn around the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Games, attended Brigham Young University and once owning property there. But on Friday, The Salt Lake City Tribune tossed its support to President Obama, in a editorial titled "Too Many Mitts." ...

— Salt Lake Tribune throws its support behind Obama — CNN

The Salt Lake Tribune announced in an editorial published Friday its endorsement of President Barack Obama for the 2012 race, questioning the "pragmatic, inclusive" former Massachusetts governor’s change into Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

"The president has earned a second term. Romney, in whatever guise, does not deserve a first," the Utah newspaper said in the editorial. ...

— Salt Lake Tribune endorses Obama — Dylan Byers | Politico

— US Election: Oct 19 as it happened — The Telegraph

... It’s been a day of newspaper endorsement but this is a surprise: The Salt Lake Tribune, the largest paper in the overwhelmingly Mormon state of Utah, has endorsed Obama. And they’ve given their adopted son a kicking while doing it. ...

The Guardian

"... And then there was the Salt Lake Tribune, in a Utah that is 99.999% certain to vote for Romney. It’s the most damning of the lot in bashing Romney and endorsing Obama. ..."

— Obama racks up newspaper endorsements — The Hill

... The most surprising was the Tribune’s endorsement of Obama, given Romney’s ties to Utah and its heavily-Mormon population. ...

— Obama tags Romney with amnesia gag — AFP

... One source that definitely does not back the multimillionaire private equity baron is The Salt Lake Tribune, the local paper in the home city of Romney’s Mormon faith, albeit a liberal one that endorsed Obama in 2008.

In an editorial, the paper lavished praise on Romney for saving the city’s 2002 Winter Olympics, but said his subsequent courting of the right-wing Tea Party movement and refusal to detail his tax plan should rule him out. ...

— Salt Lake Tribune endorses — Obama? — Alexandra Perti | The Washington Post

Here is the link: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsdebate/55115400-176/obama-lake-salt-tribune.html.csp

[Jaxinjersey]

No surprise! Romney's hometown "blood" can't trump main stream media bias.... Still liberal media...

... One source that definitely does not back the multimillionaire private equity baron is The Salt Lake Tribune, the local paper in the home city of Romney’s Mormon faith, albeit a liberal one that endorsed Obama in 2008.

[simple]

Thx rayzur, i didnt realize i would get such crap. Surfing on my phone so i figured people would just do a search. Wowza!

[TexasGranny]

So, what good does it do for Obama's campaign to get an endorsement from a liberal newspaper that backed Obama in 2008 too.

The Guardian

"... And then there was the Salt Lake Tribune, in a Utah that is 99.999% certain to vote for Romney. It’s the most damning of the lot in bashing Romney and endorsing Obama. ..."

— Obama racks up newspaper endorsements — The Hill

... The most surprising was the Tribune’s endorsement of Obama, given Romney’s ties to Utah and its heavily-Mormon population. ...

— Obama tags Romney with amnesia gag — AFP

... One source that definitely does not back the multimillionaire private equity baron is The Salt Lake Tribune, the local paper in the home city of Romney’s Mormon faith, albeit a liberal one that endorsed Obama in 2008.

No comments regarding the Romney endorsement from the

Orlando Sentinel: We have little confidence that Obama would be more successful managing the economy and the budget in the next four years. For that reason, though we endorsed him in 2008, we are recommending Romney in this race.

The Tennessean: One of the South’s major Democratic newspapers-a media organ which endorsed Barack Obama four years ago without batting an eye-has shocked the political establishment in Tennessee by endorsing Mitt Romney for President in this morning’s paper. For those outside of Tennessee, it may not seem such a surprise for a Southern newspaper to endorse the Republican nominee for President, but The Tennessean is one of the remaining holdovers in this State from the not-so-long-ago days of Democratic domination of all things west of the Cumberland Plateau.

The Reno Gazette-Journal threw its weight behind Republican nominee Mitt Romney

[cris]

You all do know that there are Liberals in the LDS, right?

So, without doing any research I would venture to guess that

the Tribune has a Lib owner....Think thats possible?...Most

newspapers do.....I doubt seriously that the Conservative LDS

would consider this paper to be the 'LDS voice of Utah'....

Check out the bio on George Pyle....That says a lot about the

writer

Edited October 21, 2012 by cris

[umbertino]

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lol, my Friend.... You're kidding , right?

[Rayzur]

Thx rayzur, i didnt realize i would get such crap. Surfing on my phone so i figured people would just do a search. Wowza!

I was actually quite surprised, so had to go looking to see if that were really true. A lot of other papers have apparently already caught it and it has gone viral throughout some of the news media. Those are the comments at the end, that did not cut and paste well. But if you get a chance to read the article, it does give some of the rationale...

I voted 2 weeks ago and at this point am pretty much just following things to see if it turns out the way I think it will... There is a group of us who have thousands riding on the outcome, ....for which we had to set wagers last year (and yes, I did win the Romney call wagered after all the candidates announced their running).

[jonjon]

Romney joked the other night that, "The media has there job to do and he has his; His job is to explain how he will turn our country around and there job is to keep anyone from finding out."

[mcdinarut]

A successor to Utah Magazine (1868),[2] the publication was founded in 1870[3] as the Mormon Tribune by a group of businessmen led by former LDS Church members William Godbe, Elias L.T. Harrison and Edward W. Tullidge who disagreed with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' economic and political positions. After a year its name was changed to the Salt Lake Daily Tribune and Utah Mining Gazette, but soon after that, the name was shortened to The Salt Lake Tribune.

In 1873 three Kansas businessmen, Frederic Lockley, George F. Prescott and A.M. Hamilton, purchased the paper and turned the newspaper into an anti-Mormon organ which consistently backed the local Liberal Party. Sometimes vitriolic, the Tribune held particular antipathy for Church President Brigham Young. In the edition announcing Young's death, the Tribune wrote,

He was illiterate and he has made frequent boast that he never saw the inside of a school house. His habit of mind was singularly illogical and his public addresses the greatest farrago of nonsense that ever was put in print. He prided himself on being a great financer, and yet all of his commercial speculations have been conspicuous failures. He was blarophant, and pretended to be in daily [communion] with the Almighty, and yet he was groveling in his ideas, and the system of religion he formulated was well nigh Satanic. — The Salt Lake Tribune, August 30, 1877

In 1901 newly-elected Roman Catholic United States Senator Thomas Kearns, and his business partner David Keith, secretly bought the Tribune. Kearns made strides to eliminate the paper's anti-Mormon overtones, and succeeded in maintaining good relationships with the mostly-LDS state legislature which had elected him to the Senate. Upon Keith's death in 1918 the Kearns family bought out Keith's share of the Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company.

In 1902 the company started up an evening edition, known as The Salt Lake Telegram. The Telegram was from the beginning a money loser, and was sold in 1914 and reacquired by the Tribune in 1930 only to be sold to and merged into the Deseret News in 1952.[4]

John F. Fitzpatrick became publisher in 1924 and worked closely with Tribune and Telegram president Thomas F. Kearns, Sr. until 1952 when Kearns sold his controlling interest. In 1952 the Tribune entered into a joint operating agreement with the Deseret News, Salt Lake's daily newspaper (which was owned by the LDS Church), creating the Newspaper Agency Corporation.[5] Fitzpatrick was the architect of NAC and the Kearns-Tribune's investment into the cable business. In 1960 Fitzpatrick died of a heart attack. He had no appointed successor. An emergency session of the Kearns-Tribune Corp. board selected John W. Gallivan as the next publisher. He remained in that position until 1984 and chairman of the board until 1997.[6]

The Kearns family owned a majority share of the newspaper until 1997 when they merged with Tele-Communications Inc., a multimedia corporation, which was later acquired by AT&T. The Tribune was subsequently sold to Denver, Colorado-based MediaNews Group.

Marquee of The Salt Lake Tribune on the Tribune Building in Downtown Salt Lake City

In 2002 the Tribune was mired in controversy after employees sold information related to the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case to The National Enquirer. Tribune editor James "Jay" Shelledy resigned from his job at the paper amidst the fallout of the scandal. Two staffers also were removed from their positions as Tribune reporters.

In 2004 the paper decided to move from its historic location at the downtown "Tribune" building, to the Gateway Mall. Many people, including several Tribune employees, opposed the move, stating that it would harm the economy of Salt Lake's downtown. The move was completed in May 2005 and Tribune employees were told by Editor Nancy Conway, "It is just a building."[citation needed]

After emerging from bankruptcy in 2010, MediaNews Group lost control of its ownership to a hedge fund, Alden Global Capital. "The remainder of the Denver-based chain is owned by a consortium of lenders and by Singleton himself."[7]

In 2012, as it had in 2008[8], The Salt Lake Tribune endorsed Barack Obama for the presidency, despite opponent Mitt Romney's connections with both Mormonism and Salt Lake City, having had a hand in organizing their 2002 Olympic Games.[9]

[Rayzur]

Romney joked the other night that, "The media has there job to do and he has his; His job is to explain how he will turn our country around and there job is to keep anyone from finding out."

Ohhhhhh I was wondering what he meant with that comment..... Thanks !!

[simple]

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lol, my Friend.... You're kidding , right?

You're right my. Im still a little dumbfounded to republican mentality.

[tommy17]

No surprise! Romney's hometown "blood" can't trump main stream media bias.... Still liberal media...

... One source that definitely does not back the multimillionaire private equity baron is The Salt Lake Tribune, the local paper in the home city of Romney’s Mormon faith, albeit a liberal one that endorsed Obama in 2008.

All major newspapers where bought up years ago by the liberials. Even are home town newspaper is owned by a company in chicago and endorsed obumer , even thou 70 percent is conservatives christians.

[tommy17]

Ohhhhhh I was wondering what he meant with that comment..... Thanks !!

It's sad "if romney used 400 million of taxpayers dollars" for lithium battery plant ( in holland mich) that has not sold1 battery ,it would be all over the news everyday. And obumer ,made a campanign stop there earlier this month ,praising the plant. When the taxpayers are on the hook paying 200 hundred employees while they play cards and sweep the floors using grants paid by taxpayers by this econmic genuis.

[livinlife00]

Just for the record, I live in Utah and I am also LDS.

The Salt Lake Tribune is mostly a liberal newspaper and the Deseret News is mostly the

conservative newspaper here in Utah.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_News

Brian

Edited October 21, 2012 by livinlife00

[yota691]

It's sad "if romney used 400 million of taxpayers dollars" for lithium battery plant ( in holland mich) that has not sold1 battery ,it would be all over the news everyday. And obumer ,made a campanign stop there earlier this month ,praising the plant. When the taxpayers are on the hook paying 200 hundred employees while they play cards and sweep the floors using grants paid by taxpayers by this econmic genuis.

Watchdog asked to investigate stimulus-backed battery plant after claims of idle workers

Published October 19, 2012

FoxNews.com

July 15, 2010: President Obama gets into an electric Ford Focus as he attends the groundbreaking of a factory for Compact Power Inc. in Holland, Mich. (Reuters)

The top government watchdog for the Department of Energy has been asked to investigate a stimulus-backed Michigan battery plant where workers reportedly spend hours every day playing cards, watching movies and generally not working.

FoxNews.com earlier reported that the LG Chem plant in Holland, Mich., which was approved for a $150 million federal grant, had started putting workers on furlough due to lack of demand for their lithium-ion cells.

The new allegations surfaced in a report Thursday by Michigan station WOODTV. Current and former employees at the LG Chem plant in Holland, Mich., told WOODTV that a "whole bunch of people" spend their time playing games, including Monopoly and video games, on the company clock.

"There's no work," one employee said.

The facility, which was opened in July 2010 with a groundbreaking attended by President Obama, has yet to produce a single battery for the Chevrolet Volt, the troubled electric car from General Motors. The plant's batteries also were intended to be used in Ford's electric Focus.

Production of the taxpayer-subsidized Volt has been plagued by work stoppages, and the effect has trickled down to companies and plants that build parts for it -- including the batteries.

The WOODTV report came the same week two taxpayer-backed green energy companies filed for bankruptcy. At a time when Solyndra, the failed solar firm that got more than $500 million in taxpayer support, has become a watchword for government waste, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney seized on the LG Chem developments.

"This president's strategy of risking billions of taxpayer dollars picking winners and losers is unraveling before our eyes," campaign spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said in a statement.

But at least two federal agencies within the Obama administration -- the Energy Department itself and the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which oversees the stimulus program -- have forwarded the case to the Energy Department's inspector general for review, FoxNews.com confirmed late Friday.

"The Energy Department takes these allegations very seriously and has asked the Energy Department's Inspector General to investigate the matter to determine whether the company's requests for partial reimbursement of expenses under the grant have been legitimate," an Energy Department spokeswoman said in a statement. "The department is committed to ensuring that every taxpayer dollar is spent appropriately to achieve the goal of building a competitive, advanced battery industry in the U.S."

The spokeswoman said any expenses found not to be "legitimate work" under the grant will have to be reimbursed to the government.

It's unclear how much of the $150 million grant has been tapped to date. Under the terms, the company is supposed to match its federal grant money dollar for dollar, and is reimbursed in increments.

The facility has been supported in the past by members of both parties. It also has received sizeable tax breaks from the local government.

A spokesman for the LG Chem plant told FoxNews.com last week that battery production is expected to pick up once Volt assembly lines in Detroit resume production this month. He said the facility has spent the past two years building infrastructure and conducting pre-production "test runs."

"The market conditions haven't been as favorable, but this hasn't slowed down plans one bit," Randy Boileau said. "LG Chem has repeatedly said that this facility is a critical component for them globally."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/19/watchdog-asked-to-investigate-stimulus-backed-battery-plant/#ixzz29xwATLdE

Edited October 21, 2012 by yota691