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The Bulletin’s little problem with ethics.
by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
August 24, 2012
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The Bulletin-owned weekly Redmond Spokesman is literally crammed with legal notices, a whole fat back section of them every week. They’ve all migrated from The Bulletin, for a lower ad rate. Take a look.
I thought that the law about this required only “general circulation” in the area, not paid, not daily, in which case The Source would be as appropriate as The Spokesman. What was the gist of their challenge?
Lecture about principles??? I saw an article about Arthur Brisbane’s final column in the New York Times. In it he wrote that his fellow staff members, “share a kind of political and cultural progressivism” that “virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times.” Brisbane even argued that Times reporters approached some liberal issues, like gay marriage and the Occupy movement, “more like causes than news subjects.”
Sounds like the Source Weekly to me. Just saying…