D-News 'editor' Joe Cannon spoke at, but won't report on, secret conservative meeting

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Submitted by lucidity on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 8:55am.

The political reporting at the Deseret News is actually pretty good. I wonder how the D-News reporters feel about working for an "objective" "news" "editor" like Joe Cannon (Salt Lake Tribune):

Vice president Dick Cheney won't be the only headliner speaking to a secretive conservative policy conclave this weekend.

The editor of the Deseret Morning News, former Republican state chairman Joe Cannon, is also on the marquee at the influential Council for National Policy. [...]

Cannon says he will be explaining to the group how newspapers operate and describing the local media scene. "These people don't know a lot about how newspapers work." [...]

Though he will honor the council's demand of no news coverage, Cannon strenuously maintains he is going as a journalist. "I'm not in the politics business anymore." [...]

But the policy council's director Steve Baldwin sees Cannon's invitation differently. "He is a speaker and is part of the program," Baldwin said in an e-mail. "We are closed to the media."

Sure, Joe. Guys like James Dobson "don't know a lot about how newspapers work." Mmm-hmm.

Does anyone actually think Cannon wasn't there to tell the assembled powerful conservatives how the Deseret News could help them?

Cannon's secrecy stinks, but...

#653 On Tue, 10/02/2007 8:44pm Larry Bergan said,

Maybe the Tribune shouldn't be throwing stones at the Deseret Morning News. At least you can link to articles from that paper. All articles in the Salt Lake Tribune are secret after a week unless you're willing to pay a fee and cannot be printed verbatum in their entirety without concern.

The New York Times has decided this is a bad business policy and it would reflect positively on the Tribune to allow unfettered research of their articles also. Are you listening Mr. Singelton?

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