MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2007
Albany Times Union
The Times Union knows the name of the 24-year-old woman who was sitting on former U.S. Rep.
John Sweeney's lap when he was
driving drunk, but the Albany paper isn't naming her. "A lot of people figure that in the age of the Internet, there's no place for the sort of editorial judgment our decision represents," writes editor
Rex Smith. "We who work in the mainstream media are sometimes labeled as arrogant for the choices we make about what to publish and what to withhold. People say the era of the editor as gatekeeper of the news is over. Well, fine. Knock yourselves out on Google, folks." ||
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