[Behind Liberal Lines]

Reasonable people can disagree on the PATRIOT act. I'm post this for another reason.

This completely one-sided article was in the news section of the paper, not the editorial.

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

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[Zavien Doombringer]

[newgeezer]

This completely one-sided article was in the news section of the paper, not the editorial.

Ithaca may very well be the city of evil, and this may be the newspaper of evil.

However, given the byline, the first-person perspective and the tone, this column makes no pretense of being an objective news report. No one's trying to hide the fact that it's an opinion column.

[Scothia]

Okay. I already have intense personal reason to hate the Ithaca Journal. My only son was killed in a hiking accident there on March 16. The way the IJ reported it, he was goofing around in a dangerous area away from the rest of his party and most likely brought it upon himself. However, after talking to the other four people in his party, all very experienced hikers, what happened was just a tragic slip on some black ice, and the five were all together--no one, including my son, was fooling around. But the IJ ran with it as the lead, complete with a picture of the rescue team pulling his body on a sled.

I contacted Anne Ju, the reporter, by phone and a number of emails. I gave her the straight story, and advised her of the State Police report which corroborated what the four had told me. I gave her the names and phone numbers of the other four hikers. I also complained about the picture, which to me was just sensationalizing my son's death for their pitiful rag (though I didn't put it that way to her).

At first Ju defended her piece, saying she had received the info at the scene from one of the hiking party. The fact is, she spoke to the most emotionally distraught of the group just minutes after his dear friend fell into a gorge and died--and after he tried desperately to save him. He couldn't have gotten his own name right at that point, let alone the dispassionate facts about what happened. (Did Ju bother to ask anyone else? Noooooooooo.) After I pointed this out, and reiterated that the police report contradicted hers, Ms. Ju promised me directly to run a correction. She further said her editor consented to that--but no retraction of or apology for the picture.

To this day, to my knowledge, there has been no retraction or correction whatsoever to anything, nor has Anne Ju responded to my last emails asking why.

The IJ was not interested in the facts, nor in the tragic aspects of Jeremy Shannon's death--only in the headline it induced and in filling column space to sell papers.

The Ithaca Journal is the newspaper of evil, and I do mean EVIL.

[Scothia]

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I'm sorry, BLL. I thought you were talking about the Journal. I saw after I posted you were referring to the Times.

Well, it stinks too.

[Under the Radar]

This completely one-sided article was in the news section of the paper, not the editorial.

/boggle