Bob Casey's Scranton office has issued another newsletter (a/k/a The Scranton Times-Tribune). As usual, the Times-Tribune, whose owners and editorial board members have plunked hundreds of thousands into Casey campaigns over the years -- including that of Casey's brother -- elected to ignore basic ethics by not even bothering to disclose their conflicts of interest. This time it is a puff piece on an old story by Casey Times-Tribune staff writer Borys Krawczeniuk.
The Casey campaign has been savaged in the blogosphere over the last week (see, for example, "Bob Casey is a Fucking Idiot") after it was learned that the campaign returned a donation from a gay sex columnist who has been waging a war against Santorum. Krawczeniuk gave his bosses's favorite acquisition plenty of column inches to prattle on sanctimoniously about why they gave the money back. But, as befits a house organ, Krawczeniuk never asked Casey about some of the other questionable dollars his campaign happily accepted.
Casey never had to explain to Krawczeniuk why he didn't give back any of the money he took from Jack Abramoff's partners, good 'ole Boris didn't ask Casey about all those hundreds of PACs who gave money to both Santorum and Casey, he didn't ask him about why he was so high up on the list of recipients of money from lawyers and lobbyists, and he never asked him about taking money from a disbarred New York lawyer, sex offender, and felon.
Nope, that would have been against his bosses's interest -- you don't pour that kind of money into a candidate and allow your employees to cover him objectively, like he was just any other candidate. You don't, unless of course you run a real newspaper that follows standard journalistic ethics.
But, hey, its Scran'en. Ethics, schmethics.
The Casey campaign has been savaged in the blogosphere over the last week (see, for example, "Bob Casey is a Fucking Idiot") after it was learned that the campaign returned a donation from a gay sex columnist who has been waging a war against Santorum. Krawczeniuk gave his bosses's favorite acquisition plenty of column inches to prattle on sanctimoniously about why they gave the money back. But, as befits a house organ, Krawczeniuk never asked Casey about some of the other questionable dollars his campaign happily accepted.
Casey never had to explain to Krawczeniuk why he didn't give back any of the money he took from Jack Abramoff's partners, good 'ole Boris didn't ask Casey about all those hundreds of PACs who gave money to both Santorum and Casey, he didn't ask him about why he was so high up on the list of recipients of money from lawyers and lobbyists, and he never asked him about taking money from a disbarred New York lawyer, sex offender, and felon.
Nope, that would have been against his bosses's interest -- you don't pour that kind of money into a candidate and allow your employees to cover him objectively, like he was just any other candidate. You don't, unless of course you run a real newspaper that follows standard journalistic ethics.
But, hey, its Scran'en. Ethics, schmethics.
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