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Disclosed in a scrapbook article ...

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/481750.html

Some scrapbookers are using computers to create entire projects. Others are using it here and there. It's all part of the trend, says Christina Headrick, owner of Carolina Memories in Durham and former News & Observer reporter, who defines digital scrapbooking as any use of a computer to create an element on a page.

But not in the Duke LAX case article:

http://www.newsobserver.com/978/story/426413.html

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I think a few disclosures were omitted from other Trinity Park residents. Just a hunch.

Let's see:

1. If you don't disclose it in the rape hoax stories, then maybe no one will know or complain.

2. If you don't disclose it in the scrapbook article, I guess other local scrapbook store owners might complain about the free ad without disclosing.

I am posting on Sills' blog now.

I posted this:

"Ms. Sill

I notice today that you have been willing to quote an ex-colleague who lives in Trinty Park and apparently not so happy with Duke students in your hyping of the Duke Lacrosse hoax, but failed to disclose in at least some of those articles you were quoting someone you had a personal relastionship with.

Oddly when in an article on scrapbooking you do disclose:

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/481750.html

"says Christina Headrick, owner of Carolina Memories in Durham and former News & Observer reporter,"

Now I know scrapbooking is very important, But is it your usual policy to not report such a potential source of bias as carrying the water for an ex-colleague when you gin up a vigilante mob to help an ex-colleague use a hoax to try to run someone out of their neighborhood?

At least I don't see a similar disclosure in this article about the hoax:

http://www.newsobserver.com/978/story/426413.html

Are there other undisclosed potential conflicts in the Duke Lacrosse hoax case that you have failed to reveal? Is this the untold story of why you were out helping to gin up mobs to go to a neighbors house? Does the N&O regularly help gin up mobs to help employees, ex-employees, relatives or friends with neighborhood issues? Who is responsible at the N&O to keep the paper out of such conflicts?"

on Sill's blog. We shall see if she responds.