By Peter Johnson
USA Today
Published 4/13/05
Excerpt:
Now, with the Albom case, the question of whether high-profile columnists are treated with kid gloves “is the kind of question that is probably being asked rhetorically and specifically by every major newspaper in the country,” says Bob Steele, who teaches ethics at the Poynter Institute, a Florida-based school for journalists. The Free Press’ “system of quality control clearly failed.”
Because of Albom’s celebrity, the Free Press “needs Mitch Albom more than he needs them — but they need their reputation more than they need him,” Harvard media analyst Alex Jones says.
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