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That's definitely a shame. It's filed under "Bloomberg Opinion" though (with a disclaimer at end about it being opinion of the article author). P.S. it's even
by asadkn 8y ago
That's definitely a shame. It's filed under "Bloomberg Opinion" though (with a disclaimer at end about it being opinion of the article author).
P.S. it's even worse that the hypocrite fans don't callout when the paid-for praise happens without disclaimer. And that happens way more often.
- ForrestN 8y agoI'm generally against the "opinion/news" distinction anyway, but the same disclosures should apply in the opinion section. For example, if a newspaper published an opinion piece arguing against a new health care law, shouldn't readers know that the writer is the head of an insurance company that would lose billions if the law were past? I agree with you—if a company advertises with a given outlet and journalists write stories about that company, positive or negative, I'd like to know about it. Unlike in this case, there is the supposed "separation of church and state" that protects newsrooms from the advertising side of these businesses. But I'm skeptical that works perfectly in practice. But this is something else entirely. There's no firewall between Bloomberg's editors and... Bloomberg's editors.