A newspaper such as The Informer has to rely on advertisers for income to survive. This puts the paper’s owners in a difficult situation if those advertisers wish to influence the editorial content of the paper.
The cancellation of the planned second part of the article written by Shaun Lee (Untangling the conservation and ethical dilemmas of big game fishing – Part 1) would suggest that this is indeed the case. If the editors are only able to publish one side of a story then they can’t honestly call the paper The Informer and so should change its name. I would suggest The Mercury Bay Shepherd.
