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PD could run Wide Open with space aliens who have no connection to earthlings


This comment at MediaShift Idea Lab is excellent but my favorite part:

This sounds like a joke, but it isn’t. We the media are in 1984 going on 2008 and a major regional newspaper experimenting online can’t distinguish between a material conflict of interest (a campaign paying a writer) and an aspect of being a human, citizen, and political junkie (donations to a candidate by a writer). The former must always be disclosed and could be reason to end a reporting career. The latter should probably be disclosed to readers but cannot be considered a breach of ethics until we have all our reporting and commentary done by space aliens with no connection to life on earth.

Thank you, Benjamin Melancon. (I know – I need to learn how to do the special character for your c, I’m sorry!)

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:30 am November 12th, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Ohio, Politics, Wide Open 

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