We confess having spoken without sufficient reflection
Charles C. Burleigh
The Unionist 1833-08-08
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We confess having spoken without sufficient reflection, in saying that the Advertiser is bound by express promises. We now amend; by substituting for that complained of, the assertion that the Advertiser has made an express promise in respect to the course he should pursue. We allude to his promising admission to communications on both sides of the Canterbury question, a promise of which we presume he will not require the “measurement,” since he has, by assigning his reasons for so doing, admitted having made and revoked it. But if he chooses to have it that he has made no express promises to conduct his paper "with that independence and fairness which ought to characterize a public journal," we are willing he should have it so, and if he prefers to set in such a manner as shows that he considers himself under no implied obligation to that fairness, why! Let him so act. But really, we did not expect he would publicly take exceptions to our declaration, that he is bound to conduct with that “fairness which ought to characterize a public journal.”
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As is true in today's media environment, the promise to represent "all sides" is often made disingenuously.
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