DC Station Rewrites Gas Exposé After a Word From Its Sponsor
An editor’s note said: “This story…has been updated to include additional research.” A more honest note might have read: “We changed this story to keep a sponsor happy.”
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An editor’s note said: “This story…has been updated to include additional research.” A more honest note might have read: “We changed this story to keep a sponsor happy.”


The real threat to democracy is that too many arbiters of what gets published cling to notions of “objectivity” that were never fair.

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