WND article’s author didn’t disclose she edited interviewee’s book

After Glenn Beck’s 8-28 rally, WorldNetDaily tried to jump the bandwagon by publishing an article by freelancer Anita Crane, headlined “Glenn Beck crowd: Not so white as advertised.” In it, Crane featured one attendee of the rally, Ron Miller, “a black Christian and author of ‘Sellout: Musings from Uncle Tom's Porch,’ " who said that “Beck got it right when he asked us to get down on our knees and repent to God for the salvation of our nation." The Drudge Report later linked to Crane's WND article.

Miller was very happy about all the attention -- he told Southern Maryland Online that sales of his book "spiked on Amazon.com from not registering to #16 the sales ranking for books on Church and State. ... The overall ranking went from somewhere in the 400,000 - 500,000 range to 12,071."

The end of the Southern Maryland Online article, though, includes this interesting note:

Note: Ron volunteered that the article on WorldNetDaily which mentioned him was written by the woman who edited his book.

That would be Anita Crane. Indeed, promoting Miller’s book on her personal website, Crane described herself as “Ron’s editor and contributor.”

Did Crane’s WND article disclose that one of the interviewees is an author whose book she edited? Nope.

Then again, WND has a long history of violating journalistic ethics by failing to disclose its personal and financial interests in the subjects and people it writes about, so it's probably not surprising that Crane thought she could get away with it too.