I know times are tough for the print media, but this is just sad and pathetic. Tomorrow's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- a newspaper which has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president -- will be delivered in a bag which has printed on it:
"Vote for Freedom...Defeat Obama"
Yes, they will literally wrap themselves in deceptive -- as if voting for Obama was voting against freedom and, of course, playing into the whole "communist/socialist" meme -- anti Obama speech.
It's a paid advertisement sponsored by the National Rifle Association.
The Post-Gazette will undoubtedly try to explain to us poor, dumb schlubs that there's a difference between editorial and advertising. I'm sure that's the stance they took when they distributed the extreme anti Muslim "Obsession" DVD earlier this month.
But the truth is that the Post-Gazette -- like any other newspaper -- can, and I'm certain, does reject advertisements.
At least two newspapers in Virginia -- The Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Virginian Pilot -- rejected this very same "Defeat Obama" bag.
What does The Virginian Pilot say about newspapers accepting ads like this? They say this about their decision to reject the ad:
The risk for a newspaper that runs the plastic bag ad, according to media ethicist Kelly McBride, is that it may give readers a reason to question its objectivity.
"If your wrap on Election Day is portraying one particular point of view, that's going to be pretty damaging to your credibility," said McBride, ethics group leader for the Poynter Institute, a school for professional journalists in St. Petersburg, Fla.
http://2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com/I already left a message on the advertising VM line for the PG that if my paper comes wrapped in that crap my subscription will be cancelled the same day. Call 412-263-1100
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