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7

WKYC’s Eric Mansfield helps debate journalists & paying for access


Eric wrote a great post here about this topic and someone has already left a comment that further explores this issue (not my comment).

Here’s the comment I left:

I think the key thing coming out of all this is that the rule the PD is trying to portray as so ironclad that it even has to apply to independently contracted bloggers who are contracted to BE political is that the rule is not so ironclad and NEEDS examination.

And THAT’S how it should have come to us from Susan Goldberg – not in the form of an ultimatum, but rather in the form of – we’ve got something really knew and weird and difficult to solve here – what should we do?

That’s what Jean would have done if given the chance. Something went awry in the process of figuring it all out.

That Wide Open was a casualty is a bummer, but the conversations that are coming out of it, as an experiment, are fantastic.

Thanks for writing about it and personalizing it – I’ve gotten many emails from “real” journalists who’ve told me similar stories about the angst at papers around this “ironclad” rule.

Sorry – do not mean to making fun of it – just with they’d called a spade a spade and said, this is a tough one – what do you think?

But that wasn’t how it came down. :(

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:03 am November 7th, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Ohio, Politics, Wide Open 

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