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A quick civics explainer for you:
Journalism is one of the checks and balances on a democratic system - IE the 'Fourth Estate'. For a healthy system, we NEED them to hold the rich and powerful to account.
Yet somehow the rich and powerful have managed to convince a lot of people that journalistic independence means treating both sides the same. IT IS NOT. True independence is having the freedom to speak honestly about the most important issues of the day.
That means not only is it important but imperative to make an endorsement and sound the alarms when a corrupt unhinged disconnected traitor of a billionaire has a real chance of taking command again and running democracy into the ground.
The "somehow" in your statement, unfortunately, is that the rich bought all of the media and Regan killed the fairness doctrine in the late 80s.