Update, Tuesday: Three days later, Jason Soifer turns in a story that seems to assume everyone's already hip to it, and on reading it I'm left with the impression that the Courier thinks push-polling is OK.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Courier scooped again -- or just ignoring the story?
It seems there's some illegal election chicanery going on in everybody's home town. Funny we aren't reading about it in the Courier, innit?
Update, Tuesday: Three days later, Jason Soifer turns in a story that seems to assume everyone's already hip to it, and on reading it I'm left with the impression that the Courier thinks push-polling is OK.
Update, Tuesday: Three days later, Jason Soifer turns in a story that seems to assume everyone's already hip to it, and on reading it I'm left with the impression that the Courier thinks push-polling is OK.
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Yes, I would concur that this is considerably important local news. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteScooped? Maybe. What the public does not know is eNews constantly posts press releases without any changes or further investigation. Should the Courier print every piece of information it gets without checking it? No.
ReplyDeleteIt looks to me that the Courier frequently publishes unchecked press releases at least as often. That practice by eNews is no better than the Courier's. The point is that the story is there and it deserves some kind of coverage.
ReplyDeleteSo, Steven, when the Courier checks the facts, rather than just printing the press release, it discovers that an individual can do this legally. Tho unlikely a single person, it is possible. Good journalism, tho late, is still good journalism.
ReplyDeleteFinding out that it's possible to do something awful legally is good journalism. Making that the center of the story is propaganda.
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