From Senate 2008 Guru:

Not only is a Bangor office staffer of Susan Collins married to the executive editor of the Bangor Daily News (without so much as a disclaimer attached to articles run by the BDN on Collins), but the executive editor himself, Mark Woodward, was once Collins' press secretary! I'm sure Susan Collins is all too happy to have her former staffer (and husband of a current staffer, surely with a vested interest to see his wife maintain employment) making editorial decisions about what does and doesn't get covered (and how it gets covered) in the 2008 Maine Senate race. I wonder if Susan Collins thinks these conflicts of interest "hurt the political discourse."