Look in the dictionary beside the phrase, “Conflict of interest” and you’ll find a picture of the newspaper media critic. For years, newspapers thought they could fight back against television and radio news’ immediacy, emotion and credibility by shooting little rhetorical arrows at the medium, and the people who worked in it. On of the […]

News Tribune Executive Editor Karen Peterson did a nice column on the ancient practice of broadcast news operations stealing from newspapers.  Make no mistake, it is stealing in the strictest sense of the word. If you take somebody’s work product without permission and turn around and sell it, that’s stealing. Now, I’ll give you a […]