Gawker Wants Staff to Reveal Political Donations

A good idea.

In what seems like a smart move to us, Gawker Media wants staffers to reveal any political donations that they make.

In a memo to staffers, Gawker Media executive editor John Cook explained the rationale:

I do not care who you vote for, nor do I care what you do with your money. It should be obvious to anyone who works here or reads our sites that we reject the norms of false objectivity in political reporting, and that our writers are free to advocate positions in which they are invested both on our sites and in their personal time.

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