Two Questions for FR Reporters and Posters

11/4/11 | L.J..Keslin

[mosesdapoet]

TWO QUESTIONS FOR FR's REPORTERS & POSTERS

Should Bloggers & web News sites Covering OWS Be taking names ?

Should stories in "statist" media be reported in FR as another "services in kind campaign contribution "?

While some "correspondents" covering the protestors and participants of the OWS, (occupation of Wall Street) ,the so called anti-capitalistism protest, are checking backgrounds of the participants where and when possible. It might be eye opening if those OWS participants were also asked what is their educational background including; their college,major and professor by those reporting news sites and bloggers..

There are several kinds of political campaign contributions and one of them is "services in kind" . A gas station offering a contribution of gas,or a printer offering printing up leaflets., Both are usually assigned a dollar ammount and reported .But of course a tv station offering slanted news coverage, or a newspaper offering a biased story both of which never are assigned a dollar ammount and go unreported. If an article or story is done through an assigned reporter the reporter is also offering a service in kind campaign contribution through the medium they're working for . I think it's time to name the names and list their contributions even if it's an estimated dollar ammount exceeding the legal limit particularly by those posting or commenting on that campaign contribution..

[Steely Tom]

Good luck with that.

[bksanders]

Since neither “OWS” nor “Occupy” were not in your header I saw the post, otherwise my kill filters seem to be behaving rather well… No Occupy, No Mitt, No Euro, No Asia, No Iran ad nauseum.