Last week I introduced you to Lisa Michaels, a Republican running for senate in district 14.
Michaels dropped an email this morning to say she is boycotting the Oregonian‘s endorsement interview process, because they won’t allow her to videotape herself during the interview. Apparently they cited concern that Michaels might wish to imply the paper’s support through the video.
“I did explain that I was doing this partially to protect myself after the paper has yet to accurately print my name in either of the two instances which my race was mentioned,” writes Michaels. “After learning from Dave [Anderson, the guy won a Pulitzer last year] that they do not even do an audio recording during these interviews to verify their accuracy I felt it was too much of a risk.”
We audio record our endorsement interviews here. But having discussed the situation this morning, the news team agreed that we wouldn’t object to a candidate videotaping their own interview. In many ways I can see why Michaels would want to document the process for herself.