It's great that the N&R Ideas section excerpts local blogs, but shouldn't the paper identify paid opinions as such?
For example, Piedmont Publius is not exactly Sam Hieb's blog, it's a John Locke Foundation vehicle for which Sam produces content that must to some extent advance the viewpoints of the parent organization. Yet readers of the print edition of the N&R get no clue that this is the case -- even the URL, which includes "johnlocke.org," is invisible to them.
That's not a knock on Sam, or JLF, but it does seem like an important detail for the N&R to omit.
Have the excerpted any of the recent posts about their publisher?
Posted by: Roch | May 20, 2012 at 06:52 PM
As far as I can tell, that controversy -- including coverage by the nation's preeminent media blogger -- went straight down the memory hole. Not even Allen Johnson's gunpoint confession was discussed in the paper, much less the strong local reaction to the failure to opine.
Posted by: Ed Cone | May 20, 2012 at 07:13 PM