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I guess that’s me. And, apparently, I found another “narrow mind” in Al Tompkins, a faculty member at The Poynter Institute whose specialties include ethics.
“Is democracy going to come undone because of this? Probably not,” he told me. “But it presents, if not a conflict, the appearance of conflict of interest. You can avoid this conflict by, at minimum, paying your own way or having the paper pay your way. That would be of some value.”
