Abelow Slams Asbury Park Press

by: Juan Melli

Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 04:23:23 PM EST

This time, the Asbury Park Press featured a doctored photo of Governor Corzine on the front page of their Sunday paper. Corzine's Chief of Staff Bradley Abelow responded in an open letter:

Discussion and debate are critical in the formation of public policy, and often the information to fuel that debate comes from fair and objective offerings from the free press. That being said, I feel that many readers of the Asbury Park Press share my view that you did the readers - and your own reporters - a tremendous disservice with the accompanying fictionalized image in Sunday's story, "Hocking the Highways."

While working with photo editing software may be a useful tool for assembling gag photos or correcting minor imperfections, using it to manipulate the Governor - any governor - into a sinister character is not what we would expect from a responsible media organization.