[Volokh-announce] New post at The Volokh Conspiracy

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	There is a new post on The Volokh Conspiracy.  You can read it at:

http://volokh.com/posts/1222965360.shtml

It begins:

	The internet has been buzzing with charges that
	tonight's debate moderator, Gwen Ifill, has a
	conflict of interest because she is writing a book,
	The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of
	Obama, that is due to be released on inauguration
	day in 2009. If nothing else, it creates the
	appearance of a conflict of interest, much as would
	a journalist's participation in a political rally
	or partisan political activity. This is the view
	taken by the Columbia Journalism Review:...