Comments on: Democrat Sheriff Gets 5 Yrs, Media Ignores Party http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/08/30/democrat-sheriff-gets-5-yrs-media-ignores-party/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:23:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: former newspaper reporter http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/08/30/democrat-sheriff-gets-5-yrs-media-ignores-party/comment-page-1/#comment-124645 former newspaper reporter Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:41:43 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=26712#comment-124645 AP and other journalistic standards calls for leaving out the identification of party affiliation for public officials when it is not specifically relevant to a story. This is often true for sheriffs and other local and less party-affiliated offices. If a specific issue has arisen, such as campaign violations, then the rules call for party affiliation to be identified. I often had to Google far and wide over the past decade to find party affiliations of persons I suspected of being Republicans involved in corruption or sex scandals because it was not included in the news stories covering it, per AP or other standards. Not everyone has to follow AP standards, of course. There is no widespread "conspiracy" here. AP and other journalistic standards calls for leaving out the identification of party affiliation for public officials when it is not specifically relevant to a story. This is often true for sheriffs and other local and less party-affiliated offices. If a specific issue has arisen, such as campaign violations, then the rules call for party affiliation to be identified.

I often had to Google far and wide over the past decade to find party affiliations of persons I suspected of being Republicans involved in corruption or sex scandals because it was not included in the news stories covering it, per AP or other standards. Not everyone has to follow AP standards, of course.

There is no widespread “conspiracy” here.

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