re: Advocate's JBE support, under the guise of news reporting, is shameful

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When I took Journalism 2090 as a business elective at LSU, I learned the difference between news content and editorial content. If the paper believed JBE's actions (or Blanco's or Jindal's) were commendable or not, the editorial page should be the place for letting us know. It's an all too common practice for today's journalists to blur the lines between reporting and editorializing. I would have no problem with the same content published under the heading EDITORIAL or OUR OPINION. What was truly newsworthy in the story? Was anything new learned, other than the writer's opinion of JBE? It was simply a half page attempt by the Advocate to burnish the image of the governor heading up to the fall election.

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