[tubebender]

Here is the holdings of Media News Group and I see at least 2 papers who ran the story. My concern is a dictate from the parent to the papers to run the letter without checking out the writer... Media News

[RonDog]

My concern is a dictate from the parent to the papers to run the letter without checking out the writer

Which they may have done.

Upper management would just have to tell them what to look for in these "pre-approved, pro-Obama" GENERIC "canned spam" messages.

IMHO, what we need to is to SHAME every newspaper into adopting a NEW policy...

...of running every potential "Letter to the Editor" through the Plagiarism Checker...

...posted by FReeper IllumiNaughtyByNature here:

www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/

[SouthTexas]

a dictate from the parent to the papers

Whitehouse maybe?