There is a boiling controversy at the moment about an application by Kirk Ross, formerly a staffer at The Independent Weekly and now a freelancer for various publications, to join the Capitol Press Corps in Raleigh. Rather than repeating everything here, I’d suggest Locker Room readers check out a post by the Greenboro News & Record‘s Mark Binker on why he and his colleagues said no, as well as a thread on Ed Cone’s blog that includes my take (and some usual anti-JLF kookery).