Saturday, July 14, 2012

Standard-Examiner "Behind the Headlines" Column: Sometimes Knowing When a Story is Ready to Publish is a Hard Decision

Will the 346 citizens who've already signed the petition demanding a Standard-Examiner apology find this morning's Andy Howell column to be sufficient... or will they stand their ground and hold out for something even a little more formal?

As a followup to Thusday's WCF writeup, we find an Andy Howell "Behind the Headlines" column in this morning's Standard-Examiner, which amounts to a detailed and forthright account of how the Huntsville 4th of July parade story developed, and how the SE corrected its erroneous first report [in the print edition] of what the sign on the back of the float actually said:

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As gentle reader Bob Becker notes in last night's reader comment, "the chronology of how it all happened is very interesting."  Here's this morning's full Andy Howell column.
Buried within this morning's column is what could pass for an apology to the citizens of Huntsville Town, we suppose: "I sympathize with their feelings and am sorry the witness got the sign wrong," managing editor Andy Howell says.

WCF reader query: Will the folks who are running the petition demanding a Standard-Examiner apology find this morning's column to be sufficient? Or will the 346 citizens who've already signed the petion stand their ground and hold out for something even a little more formal?

We'll close with this observation, folks.  This morning's Andy Howell column renders Andy's 06/29/2012 column more than a mite ironic and prophetic, dunnit?
So who'll be the first to throw in their own 2¢?

3 comments:

Smaatguy said...

As I said onthe OV Forum....Pathetic "apology" this morning in the Stranded Exaggerator by Andy....intertwinded with blame other that were it belongs....man up Standard!!

Bob Becker said...

The only unfortunate sentence in Mr. Howell's column was, I think, this one:  "I sympathize with their feelings and am sorry the witness got the sign wrong." Much better would have been "I sympathize with their feelings and am sorry our reporter got the sign wrong."   

It's the reporter's job to get it right in the paper.  Period. Buck stops there. That would have done it, I think. 

Outdoors__girl said...

A little late now, since the HUNTSVILLE story went viral by 7.10.2012. Today there are still 12 google pages with links going all over the globe:

https://www.google.com/search?q=+Huntsville+Utah+July+4+parade+float+causes+political++ontroversy+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a#hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&sclient=psy-ab&q=Huntsville+Utah+July+4+parade+float+causes+political+controversy&oq=Huntsville+Utah+July+4+parade+float+causes+political+controversy&gs_l=serp.12...0.0.0.83500.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c.DnaoKVaQxM0&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=47930ec022ab5214&biw=1303&bih=786

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