Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 12:47am.

- Editor and Publisher -
'Plain Dealer' Suspends Political Blog -- After a Resignation and Uproar, By Joe Strupp, November 02, 2007

NEW YORK The Plain Dealer of Cleveland today suspended a controversial politics blog that had sought to provide a different approach by using non-staff established bloggers, both conservative and liberal.

But when one of the two liberal bloggers was asked this week to withhold his comments on a specific congressional race after it was revealed he had contributed to one of the candidates, he resigned. That led to an uproar among other bloggers and some readers, which ended with the second liberal blogger stepping down and the paper deciding the approach was not workable with just two conservatives.

"A car can't run on two wheels, and Wide Open can't continue with only one side of the political spectrum represented," Jean Dubail, assistant managing editor/online, wrote in a note on ...

Like, the lopsided O 'tiger' is going to change its stripes? NOT.

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