Mediagazer: Plain Dealer ombud: Why I haven't written about the campaign video removal controversy (Jim Romenesko)

3:05 PM ET, November 4, 2014

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Jim Romenesko:

Plain Dealer ombud: Why I haven't written about the campaign video removal controversy — I recently got this email from a frustrated Cleveland Plain Dealer staffer: — “It is so obvious to those of us who work here the huge difference between the PD and NEOMG [Northweast Ohio Media Group] …

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