In the hopes of at least keeping the appearance of impartiality in media reporting, most organiztions have rules regarding open political activity by their reporters. But what about the actual act of voting?
The Politico's Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris state their cases in "Should journalists vote? Yes, no, sometimes."
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Should Journalists Vote?
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Yes, but no one should be able to guess who they are voting for.
If some one can guess, they need to call themselves pundits and stop pretending they are imparticial.
That's true.
I believe it was yesterday's RGJ where there was a story about the appearance of bias in the daily story selection. In the midst of that discussion it was dropped that the paper had encouraged its political reporters not to participate in the caucuses as a personal preference would no longer be private. I doubt that request was actually needed, but it does show how the newspaper industry tries to keep it impartial.
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