70 Percent Of Wall Street Journal Romney Adviser Op-Eds Lacked Disclosure
more at Media Matters: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/10/02/70-percent-of-wall-street-journal-romney-advise/190272
n 70 percent of op-eds written by Mitt Romney advisers, The Wall Street Journal failed to disclose a writer's connections to his campaign, according to a Media Matters study. The Journal has published 23 op-eds in which a writer's Romney ties were not identified, and just 10 in which they were.
The Journal published a total of 23 op-eds from the following Romney advisers without disclosing their campaign ties: John Bolton; Max Boot; Lee A. Casey; Paula Dobriansky; Mary Ann Glendon; Glenn Hubbard; Michael Mukasey; Paul E. Peterson; David B. Rivkin Jr.; and Martin West.
The Journal published a total of 10 op-eds from the following Romney advisers and disclosed their campaign ties: John Bolton; Martin Feldstein; Glenn Hubbard; William Kilberg; John Lehman; and Dan Senor.
In the case of John Bolton, the Journal disclosed he was advising Romney in an initial op-ed but failed to do so in subsequent op-eds. With regard to Hubbard, the paper failed to disclose his campaign ties in an initial op-ed but did do so in later pieces.
Editorial page editors from across the country have criticized the Journal for a lack of transparency in its editorial pages, and several media outlets have noted their failure to disclose. Media Matters has also launched a petition urging the Journal to disclose the conflicts. The Journal has not responded to requests for comment from Media Matters and other news outlets about the paper's disclosure policies.
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