As someone who has contributed several times on both the regular and "Community Conversation" sections of the Gazette, I have to opine that this was hardly a case of conflicted interests.
Dan did an admirable job of pulling together commentary for two sides of a conversation. If his track record demonstrated some devious plan for under-mining or skewing the points-of-view in the Community Conversation section of the paper, perhaps Mr. Crawford would have a leg to stand on. But to the contrary, any reader who peruses the back issues of the Gazette Sunday edition where the Op-Eds in question were published will see authors and work that soundly represents two points of view important to our community.
As a regular reader of both the Gazette and the Indy, I would suggest that perhaps the Indy would do well to follow suit with these kinds of interesting and engaging conversations in their paper. Showcasing two sides of an argument should be lauded and not over-shadowed by the political affiliation of the person organizing the dialogue.
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Re: “Republican Party executive coordinated Gazette opinion pieces”
As someone who has contributed several times on both the regular and "Community Conversation" sections of the Gazette, I have to opine that this was hardly a case of conflicted interests.
Dan did an admirable job of pulling together commentary for two sides of a conversation. If his track record demonstrated some devious plan for under-mining or skewing the points-of-view in the Community Conversation section of the paper, perhaps Mr. Crawford would have a leg to stand on. But to the contrary, any reader who peruses the back issues of the Gazette Sunday edition where the Op-Eds in question were published will see authors and work that soundly represents two points of view important to our community.
As a regular reader of both the Gazette and the Indy, I would suggest that perhaps the Indy would do well to follow suit with these kinds of interesting and engaging conversations in their paper. Showcasing two sides of an argument should be lauded and not over-shadowed by the political affiliation of the person organizing the dialogue.