Today's edition of Nebraska StatePaper.com includes a column by Kyle Michaelis questioning whether the Omaha World-Herald should divest its interest in ES&S, the world's largest provider of election management systems.
Michaelis does not assert any wrong-doing by either company. However, he blames the World-Herald for blurring the line between reporting the news and making it, as well as shaping elections and deciding their outcome.
"No suggestion of impropriety or corruption is necessary to say that it does not serve the public good for a newspaper that already plays so great a part in Nebraska politics to step beyond reporting on elections to play a role - any role at all - in actually counting the ballots by which they are decided," Michaelis writes.
The Reader's Media Notes has previously pointed out that the World-Herald chose not to publish a story earlier this year that cast ES&S in an unfavorable light.
2 comments:
The Omaha paper has long been accused of being closer to an editorial paper than a news paper, so I wouldn't expect them to change.
It's no fun being an illegal alien.
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