Was there any doubt?
Posted in Statehouse & Capitol with tags James Traficant, toupee on August 1, 2002 by Billy DennisYes, Traficant wore a toup.
James Traficant,toupee
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Unethical journalists galore
Posted in Watchdog on August 1, 2002 by Billy DennisBoston Globe reporter Bill Dedman recently wrote an article detailing how 19 working journalists donated money to the campaign of Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary and Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. Another three gave money to other Democratic candidates. One lonely journalists gave money to a Republican.
The article said: “Sandra Constantine, a general assignment reporter in the Holyoke bureau of the Springfield, Mass., Union-News, gave Reich $20 but said she wished she could contribute more. ‘I’m just a liberal,’ ‘ Constantine said. “Another one of those liberals in the media.’”
Karla Hailer-Fidelman, one of the reporters caught in the controversy says she is being treated unfairly. It was perfectly acceptable for her to donate money to Robert Reich because she was only a “part-time” columnist for the Newton Tab’s editorial page. Besides, she gave him the $85 to cover her expenses as a Reich delegate at the state convention, she said, demonstrating she is even more clueless about ethics than the original article implied. Also, she wrote that her editors gave her their OK, as long as she was upfront about her bias, demonstrating that editors can be equally clueless.
Fire the lot of ‘em, I say.
