Newspaper Muzzles its readers......
(Via CBC: Paper bans election talk from letters page )
After reading this one, I simply had to mention it here.
A newspaper, banning election letters during an election….they have to be kidding.
Sure the Partisan workers try to get their partisan spiel in the paper. No different than having a candidate for office on a phone in talk show and party supporters jamming the phone lines.
What’s different in this case is Greg Mulock the editor of The Northern Light simply banned Election letters outright. Isn’t that what editors get paid to do?? EDIT?? Sorry if I simply cannot get my head around this one. Pretty hard to have debate, and exchange of ideas during a campaign, when newspapers pulls out the muzzle for its readers.
Sure tighten up the editing, and watch for those over the top Partisan letters, but don’t muzzle the community totally from discussing the issues.
Just wrong IMO.
PNB
After reading this one, I simply had to mention it here.
A newspaper, banning election letters during an election….they have to be kidding.
Sure the Partisan workers try to get their partisan spiel in the paper. No different than having a candidate for office on a phone in talk show and party supporters jamming the phone lines.
What’s different in this case is Greg Mulock the editor of The Northern Light simply banned Election letters outright. Isn’t that what editors get paid to do?? EDIT?? Sorry if I simply cannot get my head around this one. Pretty hard to have debate, and exchange of ideas during a campaign, when newspapers pulls out the muzzle for its readers.
Sure tighten up the editing, and watch for those over the top Partisan letters, but don’t muzzle the community totally from discussing the issues.
Just wrong IMO.
PNB
