Why should Perry have cared?

About meeting with or seeking the endorsement of the San Antonio Express-News or any other of the state's major daily papers, that is. It's not as if any of them had any interest in getting his message out free of their own lefty spin or distortion. The people working for Texas' major papers all considered savaging Perry as their primary mode of entertainment this election season. I really can't blame him for telling them to go pound sand.