Resigning in protest: two editors quit their Florida newspaper after it makes an election policy exception for one candidate.(The Beat)(Randall Murray and SY O'Neil of lJupiter Courier)(Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers)(Column)

American Journalism Review,  April, 2004  by Rosen, Jill

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In a hard-news world, most news organizations insist on firm policies for election coverage to ensure that candidates are treated equally and that the newsroom is spared bias charges. So when their bosses insisted in March that they bend the rules for a candidate, two appalled editors at a Florida community paper resigned.

But, says the editor of that paper, the community-news world is not the place to play hardball--there it's sometimes OK to bend the rules to make readers happy.

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Jupiter Courier Editorial Page Editor Randall Murray and Managing ...

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