Comments on: A Lesson In Activism

By: Miss Magoo

Miss Magoo — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:36:00 +0000

The newspaper that ran the story mentioned above did verify the letters. They called the phone number they were given by the letter-writer to verify and it checked out. But, then several things led the staff to be suspicious.

Why should the newspaper apologize? The organization that unlawfully used a Beverly resident’s address to write letters to the editor owes that resident an apology.

I totally support veganism. However, I think that using tactics such as making up names and addresses to write letters to the editor discredits the movement. No organization should use such tactics.

By: Eccentric Vegan

Eccentric Vegan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:26:36 +0000

“All the facts of this case haven’t been made public yet, though.”

What a tease! Now I’m super curious.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:33:34 +0000

Regarding bullet #1: Unless it’s a very large paper, newspapers generally don’t have fact checkers.

Also, an administrative assistant or the opinions editor only verifies the phone numbers of letter writers — and sometimes they don’t even do that.

All the facts of this case haven’t been made public yet, though.
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