About Marketplace | Commentaries
If you are interested in submitting a commentary, please send your piece to commentary@marketplace.org. Pieces should be no more than 350 words in length, have a clear economic or business theme or angle, and should be written in a conversational style. Please allow 3-4 weeks for a response.
Marketplace Commentary Protocol
Commentary is passionate talk. It is a forum for insight, provocation, sharing of first-hand experience, and explication not afforded in spot news and features. It’s entertaining food for thought.
Marketplace commentaries strive to be fresh and unpredictable. They can be critical, but they are not ad hominem.
Marketplace defines editorial balance as the airing of a wide range of political and economic perspectives on a given subject over time. Marketplace looks for commentary that is "out-of-the-box" and therefore not easily labeled. That is why tit-for-tat commentary is seldom heard on Marketplace.
On air, Marketplace commentary is clearly identified as opinion and a commentator’s key institutional affiliation is given.
The Marketplace website lists biographical information and institutional affiliations of regular commentators with links to other websites for more information.
Marketplace commentators have expertise, whether professional or personal, to back up their arguments. They can provide attributed facts whenever we ask.
Marketplace asks commentators to disclose any conflicts of interest, including government or corporate contracts to promote a specific policy. But it is also the responsibility of a commentator to reveal any conflict of interest.
Marketplace makes an effort to recruit commentators of different races, ethnicities, faiths, political and economic persuasions, classes, and gender.
Marketplace does not endorse political candidates.
During election campaigns, Marketplace commentaries do not shy away from analyzing candidate positions on a broad range of economic and business issues.
A few days before an election, Marketplace suspends commentaries that could be interpreted to recommend how the electorate should vote.
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Well, my part of the stimulus was $29.95; that won't even cover 1\2 tank of gas. So much for helping stimulate the economy.
