Comments on: And still no correction http://prairieprogressive.com/2007/01/07/and-still-no-correction/ thoughts while vastly outnumbered on the northern great plains Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:19:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Patrick Lalley http://prairieprogressive.com/2007/01/07/and-still-no-correction/#comment-474 Patrick Lalley Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:15:40 +0000 http://prairieprogressive.com/?p=946#comment-474 I'd like to point out something that I don't expect will change your mind, but is an important distinction. The Voices section is not the local news section of the Argus Leader, as you suggest. It is a section containing opinion, columns and conversation and is labled as such. The blog post that was excerpted in the print edition is clearly opinion. It is Sheri's opinion that the inspectors were kicked out. You differ with that assessment. I can understand that. But is it a correctable error of fact? That is less clear. I appreciate your points and your interest. Patrick Lalley <a href="http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=VOICES" rel="nofollow"> Voices</a> editor I’d like to point out something that I don’t expect will change your mind, but is an important distinction. The Voices section is not the local news section of the Argus Leader, as you suggest. It is a section containing opinion, columns and conversation and is labled as such. The blog post that was excerpted in the print edition is clearly opinion. It is Sheri’s opinion that the inspectors were kicked out. You differ with that assessment. I can understand that. But is it a correctable error of fact? That is less clear. I appreciate your points and your interest.
Patrick Lalley
Voices editor

]]> By: Doug Wiken http://prairieprogressive.com/2007/01/07/and-still-no-correction/#comment-451 Doug Wiken Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:21:31 +0000 http://prairieprogressive.com/?p=946#comment-451 I'm wondering if the ARGUS ever ran a correction on the Gannett columnist who wrote a column printed more or less as news in a news section of the ARGUS prior to the Bush-Gore election contest. It reported just a few days prior to the election the "lies" of Al Gore. Only problem with the hack work was that it neglected to report any of the actual stories which indicated the "lies" were a work of Republican propagandists. We can get all the opinion we want or would ever need by the YOU as in Time Mag's Person of the Year. We don't really need propaganda masqueraded as news in our conventional news media and we don't really need duplicates of the worst of blog posts presented as even opinion. I still buy the ARGUS, but the new format is still something that looks like it was patterned after the distribution of a manure spreader. I’m wondering if the ARGUS ever ran a correction on the Gannett columnist who wrote a column printed more or less as news in a news section of the ARGUS prior to the Bush-Gore election contest. It reported just a few days prior to the election the “lies” of Al Gore.

Only problem with the hack work was that it neglected to report any of the actual stories which indicated the “lies” were a work of Republican propagandists.

We can get all the opinion we want or would ever need by the YOU as in Time Mag’s Person of the Year. We don’t really need propaganda masqueraded as news in our conventional news media and we don’t really need duplicates of the worst of blog posts presented as even opinion.

I still buy the ARGUS, but the new format is still something that looks like it was patterned after the distribution of a manure spreader.

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