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| Updates on ethical decision-making in newsrooms big and small, assembled by Poynter's Kelly McBride and colleagues. ... |
Saturday, January 26, 2008 --- 181 days ago http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=67&aid=135686
| Reporters new to the politics beat are often shocked -- shocked -- to find their stories re-purposed as campaign ads. It happens all the time, on television ads and in printed fliers.
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Reporters' objections are understandable. When favorable stories about a political candidate are used by a campaign or a political action committee to generate support, or when the opposition uses negative stories to tear down a candidate, it compromises the perception that the reporter and the newsroom are independent. Most newsrooms have reprint policies that dictate who can obtain copyright permissions, what they can do with reprints and how much they have to pay. Given the perception problem, when it comes to political stories, why don't newsrooms refuse to grant permission to people who seek to use content for campaign purposes? A recent case in Indiana shows just how hard that would be. Last September, Daily Herald columnist Amy Mack published a column detailing how the McHenry County State's Attorney had billed taxpayers $17,000 for sweets. In November and December, someone anonymously mailed 900 copies of the column to residents in the area. Mack wrote a column telling re ... |
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