Posted on 08/16/2016 6:38:14 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
I have a legit question about someone in our local community who is running for City Council. Happens to be publisher for our local paper. Should he be required to quit if elected?
That is....if they happen to become mayor?
Since you have to ask vote against and drop your subscription. Visit it online. Most papers that have a article limit are fooled by private browsing.
You only have 2 ways to vote.
I was just having a discussion with a gal who just works in sales at the newspaper and they won’t let her run for anything. The publisher? YIKES. Nobody has questioned if he would have to step down?
It’s an obvious conflict of interest.
Nope. No one has asked.
Does the City Council position pay enough to live on? Is it a full time position? Those things must be taken into consideration.
Didn’t think that would matter. The guy is press and is supposed to ne holding local gov accountable.
“be”
If the publisher is the owner, you expect him to quit?
His paper should have to keep a banner at the top of each page declaring his governmental position and presumed bias for the entire time he holds office.
The person is not the owner. Another media company does.
How would an owner of a newspaper....serving as mayor....be objective and serve the public? Bloomberg comes to mind.
Is this a daily newspaper? The only one in the community? I would not vote for the local newspaper publisher for public office because of the obvious conflicts of interest.
I agree.
We had a situation like that in my town before I moved here —this one old lady reporter had served ON the council for several years—while continuing to cover the council for the local rag.
She never challenged them or wrote anything negative, of course.
Ugh!
Oh yeah, then there was Michelle Miller, reporter for the CBS affiliate in New Orleans, who was covering then-Mayor Marc Morial— while she was “dating” him.
Morial is now in NYC as head of the Urban League.
Miller, now his wife, is reporting for the CBS affiliate there.
Democrats.
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