I do want to say that I hold nothing against Victoria personally. She has been polite in her responses and has now given me contact information so I can ask for corrections to the factually-inaccurate editorial and can contribute information to the reporter who is supposed to write a story on LB 654.
I imagine she’s been told what she has to say and which facts she can allow to be printed. The whole thing is just sad.
And the Journal-Star is not alone. Of the 11 papers I sent a 250-word version of this letter to, only my hometown paper and one other paper contacted me to verify that I wrote the letter so they could print it.
That should tell us something.
butter, it’s really rare that an editor would tell a letter writer what they are and aren’t going to publish in a letter to the editor. It’s also quite possible that she and others at her newspaper are too stupid to understand the concepts of ‘security checks’ and ‘legal standing.’
Also, I think you’re better off forgetting about the false statements act. No newspaper is going to be held accountable under that act. Newspapers occasionally get into trouble for libel, but that’s about it.