Russell Adams of The Wall Street Journal writes Monday about how health insurer Humana Inc. suggested an article on Medicare to the Detroit Free Press and then purchased an advertisement next to the article when it ran in this weekend’s newspaper.
“‘Editorial content needs to remain, and does remain, with the newsroom,’ says Paul Anger, editor and publisher of the Free Press. ‘But where we can find the connections that make sense for marketing purposes, that’s something that we need to be open to.’
“A Humana spokesman says the company simply asked whether the Free Press was planning a special section on the Medicare enrollment period and, on learning that it was, decided to buy an ad in the section.”
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Hmmm--Our local Gannett paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal gave scant coverage to an Oct. 29-30 overnite sit-in at HUMANA headquarters by single payer Medicare-for-all advocates. There was coverage in the online edition and several photos that the reading public would have found interesting, but there was not a word in the print edition.
Shall we give the CJ the benefit of the doubt and say deadline was the problem?
Hmmmm