Detroit News Is Not Happy With Romney’s Decision To Edit Its Endorsement
Mitt Romney’s campaign is trying to mitigate the damage done when it sent out a Detroit News endorsement and edited it to remove a paragraph critical of Romney’s stance on the auto bailout by claiming that copyright law prevented them from sending out the full version to reporters.
The paper’s not happy with the move, and famous First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams isn’t buying the excuse. He told me Wednesday evening that the News could actually sue Romney if it wanted (though he noted the paper would be “ill-advised” to bring it).
“This is a situation where if anything the Detroit paper has a claim if it wanted to assert it against Romney for printing what it said in a distorted way,” he said. “For the Romney people to print so much of it and leave out only the bad parts is by it’s nature a distortion.”
Team Romney told Jim Romenesko that copyright law meant the campaign was “required when sending something out that it’s less than half the original article.”
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