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At Issue with Ben Merens
from Monday, October 1, 2012 at 4:00 PM

Want to write an endorsement letter for a candidate in your local newspaper? Depending on the paper, you may be asked to pay for that letter. Is this becoming the new normal for papers? In the first half, Ben talks with a publisher who has enacted such a policy for his paper. Then in the second half, Ben and his guest look at the broader implications of these policies for papers and their readers. Guests: - Jake Benson, owner and publisher, Proctor Journal, a weekly newspaper in Proctor, Minnesota. www.proctorjournal.com - Jane Kirtley, Silha (SILL-uh) Professor of Media Ethics and Law at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota. Former executive director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

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