Boston Herald's Howie Carr actively raising money for NH Republicans

[BurtWorm]

While CNN trashes the career of their MidEast desk editor Octavia Nasr for tweeting something respectful in memory of a Lebanese cleric, the Boston Herald looks the other way when one of their own works to elect Republicans.

Long live America's "objective press." :eyes:

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2010/07/09/hamburgers__and_politics__with_howie/

Herald columnist Howie Carr, who had Scott Brown on his WRKO radio show several times in the days leading up to January’s special election, is now hitting the road on behalf of Republicans. The conservative yakker is the headliner of a $50-a-person fund-raiser for the New Hampshire Republican State Committee. Called “Hamburgers With Howie,’’ the July 31 event is being held at a residence in Nashua that happens to be the onetime home of Francis P. Murphy, the Granite State’s governor from 1937 to 1941. (Don’t tell Howie, but Murphy was a Republican who later became a Democrat.) While it’s true Carr proudly wears his right-wing politics on his sleeve, it’s unusual for a working journalist to lend his name so explicitly to a political event. “I suspect would say he criticizes Republicans, too, but doing something like this isn’t what I consider objective journalism,’’ said Alex Jones, the Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer on the Press and Public Policy at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center. “But I don’t think he thinks he’s in the objective journalism business.’’ Tom Fiedler, dean of BU’s College of Communication, noted: “You cannot call yourself a journalist — even as a columnist — and actively support a political party. It strikes me that the Herald should now report Carr’s salary to the Federal Election Commission as a contribution to the GOP.’’ We wondered what Howie would say, but he didn’t call us back yesterday, and neither did his bosses at the Herald.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. He's an asshole

Now wonder the GOP loves him - he opens up his program to every right winger that comes down the highway

[Riftaxe]

2. Unless things have changed

columnists are paid to have opinions, news editors are not. So pretty much the old apples and oranges thing.

[BurtWorm]

4. Even columnists are not supposed to be earning money for a party.

As the ethicist in the OP said, the Herald is, in effect, making a political contribution to Republicans that ought to be reported.

[Kat45]

3. No surprise--after all, it is the Herald. n/t

[Gormy Cuss]

5. No surprise that it's Howie either. n/t