I wonder how many NPR reporters have expressed views on Journolist and if they always met Vivian’s standards?
Before the 2004 election, NPR ran this series "On the Fence" where a supposedly undecided voter was interviewed periodically and expressed his views on who he was considering would get his vote. Of course, in the beginning he was 'totally undecided' but each week he leaned more and more for Kerry. Turned out that the guy was not just a resident from the midwest but was this movie producer from LA and a paid NPR consultant. After lots of heat, they quietly dropped the series two weeks before the election. I was contacting the Ombudsman daily till they took it off.