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Chicago Tribune Reporters Don't Want Readers' Pre-Approval

Posted by timothy on from the that-could-certainly-be-annoying dept.

theodp writes "Irked by the Marketing department's solicitation of subscribers' opinions on stories before they were published, 55 reporters and editors at the Chicago Tribune signed an e-mail demanding the practice be stopped. 'It is a fundamental principle of journalism that we do not give people outside the newspaper the option of deciding whether or not we should publish a story, whether they be advertisers, politicians or just regular readers,' the e-mail read."

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  1. Mission for Slashdot... by Critical_ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    'It is a fundamental principle of journalism that we do not give people outside the newspaper the option of deciding whether or not we should publish a story, whether they be advertisers, politicians or just regular readers,' the e-mail read."

    Here's a mission for Slashdot... Google every reporter who signed that e-mail and determine if any of them were in bed with the Bush administration in the run up to the Iraq War. This should clear up whether this is a truly genuine sentiment or just exaggerated outrage.

  2. Fox gets a bad rap... by Lost+Engineer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    but everyone knows that "fair and balanced" means balancing out the other side. The real problem is that liberals can't own up to the fact that rest of the cable news clique panders to their political sensibilities.

    I get it, too. Journalists are generally well educated, work hard, and all but the most famous get paid peanuts. There are some unions involved. Find any profession with those conditions and you'll find liberals. Let's stop pretending that when every person in an organization shares a political view that it doesn't leak into the reporting.

    All news is biased -- get over it.