Just saw this on DailyKos…<\/p>\n
ME-Sen: Conflict of interest in Maine press – for Collins
by maineiac
Fri Aug 24, 2007 at 09:24:25 AM PDT<\/p>\n(From the diaries — kos)<\/p>\n
Senator Susan Collins gets amazing press from the Bangor Daily News. AMAZING. Her press release’s complaints that she was being taped by the Allen campaign – while, gasp, marching in a parade – got the BDN to do a front page story and to run an editorial tut-tutting over it as bad for civil discourse in Maine.<\/p>\n
When she first ran, the BDN got all agog because people had looked at information in the public record about her.<\/p>\n
They are her biggest fans, excusing away every pro-war and pro-Bush vote. They help keep the myth alive that she is a thoughtful moderate.<\/p>\n
Well, what almost no one knows is that the Executive Editor of the BDN (Mark Woodward)’s wife (Bridget Woodward) is on Senator Collins’ Bangor staff. This is a clear conflict of interest.<\/p>\n
How can we inform the people of Maine about it? You know darn well that the BDN won’t tell anyone!!!<\/p>\n
For a bunch of folks who are SO concerned with potential problems in how campaigns are run, the BDN is living in a big glass house.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
At least with faux noise – we know they are a republican sound bite machine….even after years in New England, I was not aware of this connection between the newspaper and the Senatorial staff member…<\/p>\n
Don’t you just know if it were a “D” Senator – this news would be on faux noise all the time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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