What if a Wisconsin Republican was caught on video talking about tough it was for his family to get along on his $174,000 a year salary at a time when the state’s Governor is not only cutting but eliminating collective bargaining for public unions? What if it wound up on the Internet? On the Republican Party’s own site.
What if a big liberal website then put it on You Tube? What if the Republicans — realizing that does not exactly make their politico or party look good – then demanded it be pulled from You Tube? And what if the website, feeling there is a principle at stake, talked to its lawyers and decided it is within its right to put it on its OWN big, hugely popular site, which is viewed by many in the new and old media?
Yes, it happened. And you can read about it — and view the video for yourself — HERE.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.