(What IS a staff writer ?)
   Today’s South Florida Sun-Sentinel carries a 1-A  story by Jim Stratton,"staff writer," detailing apparent sweetheart contracts awarded to friends of Florida’s regional state employement work-force boards.
    Problem?
    Stratton is NOT a “staff  writer” for the Fort Lauderdale based paper – but rather a reporter employed by the Sentinel’s sister paper in Orlando.
   Again, the Sun-Sentinel claimed its own “staff writers” produced the newspaper’s on-going coverage of Casey Anthony’s  sensational murder trial  – when in fact the stories were written by “staff writers”  employed the Orlando Sentinel.
    Which begs three questions:
    1. How well does this practice meet the basic requirements of “full disclosure” by a newspaper?
    2. Or is this merely another shameless example of self-serving bullshit on the part of one of the nation’s fastest-shrinking newspapers?
    3. Or both?