Saturday, December 3, 2005

By Reed Williams
The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, Va.)
Published: 12/03/05

Excerpt:

Kelly McBride, who runs the ethics program at the Poynter Institute, a school for journalists and journalism teachers in St. Petersburg, Fla., said newspapers have an unwritten contract with readers promising to report the whole truth. That bar is raised when a paper makes an editorial judgment, such as one that declares someone "most eligible."

She also said The Roanoke Times should have anticipated the problem. "This is one that you really could have predicted," she said.
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