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> By David Folkenflik

According to Wikipedia...

> David Folkenflik ... is an American reporter based in New York City and serving as media correspondent for National Public Radio.

Interesting conflict of interest in news reporting.



What conflict of interest do you perceive? Would you rather the article was by Rush Limbaugh or do you see any items in the article that you feel misrepresent reality and that this was done because of the reporters' bias?


The conflict of interest is that he is writing about an organization he works for.


That does not mean there is a conflict of interest. By your standards no news organization would ever be able to report on things that they themselves are a player in. But in the real world this happens with some regularity and editorial boards have set ways of dealing with this sort of situation. They tend to become far more careful as soon as their own name is part of the story on the off chance that it could be used as proof that they are not able to report cleanly, which is then used to extrapolate to everything else they write about.


> But in the real world this happens with some regularity and editorial boards have set ways of dealing with this sort of situation

Conflicts of interest are things to know and look out for.

This is not the case of an editorial board. And, when publications write about themselves, even when there are editorial boards, there is a conflict and they may very well report the story differently than a 3rd party.

Not realizing the conflict of interest is akin to being just fine with content on a news site about a product written by someone at the product company with no label of sponsored content or something similar.


> they may very well report the story differently than a 3rd party

They may well do so, but that needs samples and analysis, not blanket statements.

Unless you have a particular beef with this article I do not think that is a strong argument to make.




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