The answer is yes
Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Wed, 10/25/2006 - 2:03pm.

Newspapers are held to a higher standard than the rest of the media.
This has nothing to do with how much money is spent on political ads in papers, but the fact that a paper would be willing to put ads in an opinion section.
It gives the appearance that the papers opinion is for sale, thus discrediting them.
I was raised in a newspaper environment, and throughout my life it was reinforced that #1 you never sell ads on your front page and #2 you never sell ads on your editorial page.

Getting off topic, I think the biggest problem with papers today is that the owners and publishers come out of the advertising departments for the most part and have never read about or given thought to media ethics.

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