You write: "At NCR, we believe the independent journalism we provide is relevant and necessary for our next generation of readers."


If your journalism were independent, you would provide equal attention and opportunity to all opinions, regardless of partisan-political affiliation. You not only fail to do this, but you actively promote and advocate for partisan-political discrimination both in your editorial policies and comments-management. Your "independence" only means distancing yourselves from certain partisan-political streams of thought and affiliating with others, especially with the Democratic Party with whom you mutually share favours. 


Journalistic integrity does not consist in not having a worldview. It consists in publicly claiming it, acknowledging that it is only one view and not the absolute truth that all should accept, and in leaving room and showing respect for other opinions. Since you do neither of this, you undermine your own journalistic integrity.