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Pulse Publisher's Hilleary Profile Questioned

By AAN Staff
august 8, 2002  03:56 pm
Pulse Publisher's Hilleary Profile Questioned
The Tennessean reports that Joe Sullivan, publisher of Knoxville, Tenn.'s, Metro Pulse, wrote a withering profile of GOP gubernatorial candidate Van Hilleary without disclosing that he had made a $2,500 contribution to Hilleary's primary opponent's campaign. The profile was also published in the Nashville Scene. Sullivan tells the Nashville daily he is a political activist and sees nothing inherently wrong with the two roles -- journalist and contributor. Nashville Scene Editor Bruce Dobie, however, says he wouldn't have run the article had he known about the contribution.
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