Virginian-Pilot: News and Editorial collusion

During the Green Bay Packers triumphant stand against the turnover-prone Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl, did a friend hand you some hot wings and say, “Hey, nevermind football. Have you heard about the bill about subaqueous land?”

Apparently, that must happen at the Virginian-Pilot.

2,397 bills were introduced in the General Assembly this year. Somehow, the editorial board of the Virginian Pilot decided to dedicate a whole editorial to HB2310 about filled subaqueous bottomland.

They would’ve dedicated an entire page, but they had to squeeze in their mandatory gun control adoration column.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been talking about subaqueous bottomland since I was a boy. I was so excited when the General Assembly was legislating about it that I wrote my mother and told her that her little boy’s dream had come true.

But, I wondered, did the Virginian-Pilot share my unique interest and focus on subaqueocity?

In the same issue of the Virginian-Pilot, this news story about HB2310 was on Page 1 of the Hampton Roads section.

So, either the Editorial scribes are psychic or they have one of those Time Machines that H.G. Wells used to read newspapers of the future.

Or the so-called “wall of separation” between news and editorial has been torn down.

The editorialists could’ve waited a day, and made it at least look like they weren’t colluding with their news division. But unless someone is going to claim that the 1/2397 chance that they’d both write about the same bill on the same day actually occurred, or the news and editorial departments are guilty of collusion, or worse.

Did the editorial page push the news division into writing a story that they wanted to opine about? Surely, any chance to attack Governor Bob McDonnell would make the Pilot lefties swoon. Since more than a few Editorial Board members are reporter-wannabees anyway, I’m not surprised.

As a blogger/columnist, I never claim objectivity. But the newspaper does. And today’s obvious collusion shows that claim is seriously suspect.

The next time the Virginian-Pilot writes about ethics reform, I’m sending them a mirror.

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