For those who may have forgotten, the Cleveland Plain Dealer…
editorial board was ready to endorse John Kerry in 2004 until it was outnumbered by the publisher. A compromise allowed the paper to support no one. Considering Cleveland’s economic shape and the voting problems in that election, one could surmise that the paper was acting against its self-interest and that of its readers.
I don’t know the blogger, but do know that anything is possible.
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OH-14: LaTourette (R) Gets Blogger Fired From Newspaper-Sponsored Group Blog UPDATED
by YellowDogSammy
Tue Oct 30, 2007 at 03:10:37 PM PDT
Today I was terminated from my engagement as a freelance blogger at the Cleveland.com blog “Wide Open” as a direct result of intervention of Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-Bainbridge Township) of the 14th Ohio Congressional District, in retaliation for my previous blogging about his re-election campaign and my financial support for two of his election opponents.