[Lee Shore]

They could have talked management into covering the concert -- attending as journalists and writing a story afterward. They didn't bother; they went as paying audience at a partisan fundraiser.

That is a clear conflict with the neutrality expected (though in this election often ignored) of journalists. If they became known as contributors to the Kerry Kampaign they would be seen as partisans. Who would trust what they wrote about politics thereafter?

I'd have fired their asses, not suspended them.

~LS

[ohCompGk]

How can you write about religion when you're an atheist? Objectively.

These people have as much right to voice their opinion as we do. When at home, we do as us and when at work, we do as work.

I'm a computer geek and if Microsoft took my certification away because I like Linux better, well, then I'd give it to them. When I recommend an OS to a customer I consider all aspects and will give them an unbiased opinion be it MS or *NIX.