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November 29th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
I have just read Dan Kennedy’s post on this issue on his blog (http://medianation.blogspot.com/) on the same subject. Kennedy, the former media critic for the Phoenix and current journalism professsor at Northeastern says, “Needless to say, this blows through every journalistic ethics test imaginable.” Then asks for the Sun’s “Denver-based owner Dean Singleton, head of MediaNews Group,” to do something about it.
November 29th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Wow, Mimi, great post.
It’s official: the Sun has jumped the journalistic shark. When other media outlets (who are also under the gun to make money, not news, from their own parent companies) write about how blatant your ethics problems are, you’re in trouble.
There’s some really good journalists at the Sun, and this sort of stunt undermines whatever they are able to accomplish under such poor editorial and business leadership.
November 29th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Oh, and I LOVE this section:
Uhh…his staff in this area consisted of us volunteers. And I sure as you-know-what that I ain’t helping the Sun sell its ads. Heh.
November 29th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Mimi, I edited your comment to put the links in, hope you don’t mind!
November 29th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
The Sun has ethics problems? Shocker!!
November 29th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Thanks Lynne. One day you will need to show me how to do that.
I agree with you the business side of the Sun undermines the hard work of the street reporters. But I think most people understand the difference.
November 29th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
PLEASE, let this be the last time that the words “Lowell Sun” and “journalism” are used in the same sentence. And smokescreen is much too nice a word. I wasn’t born on a farm, but I don’t have to step in ^%$# to know what it is.
November 30th, 2006 at 7:46 am
Maybe they’ll counter the heat over the Meehan kiss with a hard-hitting column by Paul Sullivan. Whoops. No, don’t count on that. Can’t take a shot at The Boyos, might mean trouble for Sullivan’s lucrative side job with the state. Don’t all political editors and columnists have side jobs that are subject to being wiped out at the whim of a pol? Don’t all editors ignore ethics and keep running the writer-with-a-state-job’s column at the top of their local news section? Or is this just Our Sun?
Somebody please enlighten me.
November 30th, 2006 at 9:00 am
Meehan has millions to spend and only three major newspapers in his district. They take an occasional potshot at him because he’s a tightwad (read: He doesn’t spend enough money with the Sun). They would love nothing more than a serious challenger to Meehan because it would open up the pocketbooks. Back to the subject, every one of these “tributes” are jammed packed with ads. Wait until Kendall Wallace retires.
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