If your spouse works for a candidate, you have to disclose in every piece? I don’t disagree it’s a close Beltway, however… This strikes me as a problem editors and watchdogs should police, but I don’t think we need to OD on disclosure. (A professional can do just fine — Chuck Todd, formerly of The Hotline, married to a Jim Webb staffer, strikes me as an excellent example — without having to put warning labels on everything he does.) After a while constant disclosure could get a little ridiculous…
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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