Ed Cone on the News & Record's editorial absence on Amendment One:
I lack inside knowledge of the doings on Market Street, but both of
the senior staffers in the editorial department, Allen Johnson and Doug
Clark, have written about the amendment in columns and blog posts. Both,
in fact, oppose Amendment One. Yet the formal editorial voice of the
News & Record remains silent on an issue that has captured national
attention.
As far as I know, that leaves publisher Robin Saul as the only logical force capable of blocking a lead editorial.
Another from Ed on the News & Record's off target news coverage of the issue:
The News & Record, which failed to report on two significant
anti-Amendment One events in Greensboro, sends a reporter past all the
vote-against signs in its home city to do an article
about the strong pro-One sentiment in a neighboring county that the
paper tends to cover sparingly, which story runs on the front page of
the print edition and also gets posted to the top of its notoriously
underpopulated website. ...
Never said this before, but I'm seriously considering canceling my subscription to the local daily.
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