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Sun Journal publishes banned GOP editorial

Steve RobinsonBy Steve RobinsonApril 16, 2012No Comments1 Min Read
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Kudos to the Lewiston Sun Journal for reaching out to GOP Majority Leader Phil Curtis after we published the news that his column was banned from the pages of MaineToday Media. Curtis’ column is critical of MTM owner Donald Sussman and his wife, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, and the inevitable editorial slant the newspaper chain would take. So, of course, MTM wouldn’t publish the piece.

The Sun Journal didn’t have the same editorial problem, and published the column this weekend.

Sussman’s papers just snatched the Sun Journal’s lead political reporter, Steve Mistler, so perhaps the feeling of collegiality between the papers is fading.

MTM’s competitor papers have so far avoided criticizing the obvious ethical problems with Sussman and Pingree’s ownership of the papers, but the SJ’s move on the Curtis column may signal an end to the honeymoon.

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  1. Naran Row-Spaulding on April 16, 2012 1:27 PM

    Good for the Sun Journal.  Unlike the BDN and the MTM papers, which haven’t printed the Curtis piece, nor anything regarding the Cheney Execution tweet scandal from Rep. Kruger.

    It’s good to see the SJ acting like a real newspaper, instead of the others, which are behaving like graduates of the “$ussman School of Journalism.”

  2. The Scarlet Pimpernel on April 16, 2012 6:10 PM

    The Pingree Press Herald readers deserve Mistler.

  3. Les Giibson on April 17, 2012 4:33 AM

    The Sun Journal deserves credit from running this editorial. The SJ has the opportunity to present the conservative view on issues confronting the citizens of the Lewiston/Auburn area and the state. Let’s hope they sieze the opportunity.

  4. Tippytoejoe on April 17, 2012 7:59 AM

    I love to hear all these right wingers dam Sussman ;but I didn’t see any repukes step foward to invest in the largest paper media in the state> O r to save the jobs of those work for the papers!
      I’ll bet the welfare housing they own pay a better return! YOU WHO CRITIZE  OUGHT TO READ THE NORWAY PAPER (IT WAS RUNNER UP FOR THE PULITZER AWARD THIS YEAR)
      OH BY THE WAY THE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY DID LITTLE TO CORRECT THE OVERPAYMENTS BEING MADE!
     

  5. Tippytoejoe on April 17, 2012 8:04 AM

    oh really Naran and what can one expect from your twisted insight – Really fair and bias is not in your relm of tale telling!

  6. Gerald Weinand on April 17, 2012 9:52 AM

    Rep. Curtis wrote an opinion piece, not an editorial. Not that I expect the “journalists” here at MaineWire to know the difference.

  7. questioner on April 17, 2012 5:26 PM

     So editorials are not ‘opinion pieces,’ Gerald?  Let’s see; they aren’t news, they aren’t opinion; so what are they?

  8. DamDoc on April 18, 2012 9:08 AM

    Everything in the MTM is an “opinion” piece..  especially the stuff above the fold on the front page!..  Who are you kidding? Talk about “journalists”… 

  9. DamDoc on April 18, 2012 9:12 AM

    Frankly, Tippie, we were having fun watching MTM going down in flames, and had no desire to save it and its related jobs…  Now our solice is to watch Sussman continue to sink millions into the cess pool to try to make it float..  never has, never will under it current bias..  it will just be a very expensive hobby for him, one of the 1% you pukes always rail against..  what a joke!

  10. Ron Masure on April 18, 2012 9:47 AM

    Hey Joe,
    Loved your hard hitting fact filled rebuttal to Naran.

  11. Thistle on April 20, 2012 8:56 PM

    You know what floats in a cess pool, don’t you?

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