Oh what a storm the @PostCrescent has started with what seemed like a harmless article in the Saturday edition of their newspaper. The president of the PC, Genia Lovett wrote a column titled “Post-Crescent journalists shouldn’t have signed Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker recall petitions” The piece really opens up a can of worms in my mind. This is such a polarizing article or editorial, not sure what to call it actually. The article leads with talk about journalistic integrity and transparency. The discussion about bias and what employees can and can’t do on their free time also touched upon. You MUST look at the comments.
I could not get enough of the comments, refreshing my browser several times a day to see the new ones. I spend a good part of the day calling and texting friends to see if they had seen the article and to get their take. I needed a second opinion to see if I was way off base thinking this was blowing up to be huge. Well I was not far off base at all.
All seemed well till I saw that this article written by Genia, was not really written by Genia. The same article showed up on the Green Bay and Fond du Lac newspapers also *facepalm*. OH NO!
I love the PC. I read it daily and have MANY great friends who work at the PC. I love what they do and how hard they work. This reflects so poorly on those great people!
Such food for thought about the constitutional rights of employees and then this…
What happened to transparency? Or is this the new transparency?
Sadly the message of the article is lost on the method in which it was distributed.
Read more here –> http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20120324/APC0101/203240566/Genia-Lovett-column-Post-Crescent-journalists-shouldn-t-signed-Wisconsin-Governor-Scott-Walker-recall-petitions