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A letter to the editor in this week’s PW addresses the issue of last week’s Nutter endorsement cover and why it was wrong to put a big nose and glasses on the city’s likely next mayor:
I’m happy to count myself among the “nerd bloc” lining up behind Nutter’s mayoral campaign. But I think your endorsement pushed the ethical envelope a bit too far. It’s one thing for the staff to choose a candidate and give him the nod. But it’s another for them to publish a 3,000-word love-fest that carries the patina of narrative, factual reporting.
And that cover? A tidy bit of agitprop that would make Murrow, Mao and (if he were dead) Shock G roll over in their graves/crystal coffins. I’m having a hard time figuring out where the journalism stops and the cheerleading starts—and it looks like you are too.
ADAM FINKELSTEIN
Center City
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