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NPOV for BLP?
editThe article reads like a press release at times rather than an encyclopedia. Some examples:
"Smerconish worked tirelessly in his father’s campaign during his own senior year in high school, during which he registered to vote for the first time. Despite his father’s election loss, Smerconish was smitten with GOP politics..."
"Smerconish began what would become a decade practicing law with legendary trial attorney James E. Beasley"
" Today, Smerconish’s law license hangs in the office of two of the most successful trial attorneys in America: Tom Kline and Shanin Specter of the Philadelphia law firm Kline & Specter."
"His media work grew out of his unique political experiences at an early age"
"Smerconish unilaterally decided to give up his terrestrial radio platform"
Also, most of the last paragraph is a fairly transparent plug for a book that came out in 2014: "Talk: A Novel (2014) is Smerconish's sixth book and first fictional work, about the life of conservative talk show host Stan Powers. Powers, a former slacker and stoner with no political knowledge, is nevertheless able to quickly ascend the talk radio world by his entertainment skills and recitation of red-meat talking points (which conflict with his own opinions). The more Stan Powers says on fictionalized radio station WRGT with which he personally disagrees, the higher he sees his star rising. With a Republican convention coming to his hometown of Tampa, Florida, will Powers continue to spout the lines that pays for his beach front condominium, or will he take the professional risk of being true to himself?".
As a newish person, I don't want to just start deleting things but it really seems like this was written by someone with a close connection to the subject.