vision2020@moscow.com: again, the Daily News
again, the Daily News
Bill London (london@wsunix.wsu.edu)
Fri, 7 Nov 1997 09:12:56 -0800 (PST)
Thanks to Joel Hamilton for encouraging comments on the Daily News and
election coverage.
My angst has a slightly different focus. I remain surprised by the
lack of coverage of the stealth candidate Peg Hamlett.
The other candidates were incumbents and their positions
relatively well known. With Hamlett, however, what did we know? She was
on the tree committee and thus presumably likes trees. She worked for the
heart association and so presumably liked hearts. After Steve Cooke asked
for responses to issues of the day, I saw one message posted in
response on the 2020 list (not in the DAily News) with little
information. Perhaps there were more messages, or a DAily News story, but
if so, I missed them all. Anyway, we didn't get to know about her
positions before the election by reading the News. Will we ever?
And now, to continue this diatribe against the Daily News, a
virtual spanking to the paper for violating the basic journalistic rule of
always (at least) spelling everybody's name correctly. Ken Olsen,
remember him? He must have worked for the Daily News as a reporter for a
decade. His name must have appeared in the paper several thousand times.
But when it appeared on Thursday on the front of the Arts section (in the
story about a booksigning for his book about Vernon Baker), his name was
spelled Ken Olson. A small irony, also, is that the cover of the book was
used as the illustration for the article, and Ken's name appears--properly
spelled as Ken Olsen--on that cover. Right next to the repeated spelling
of Ken Olson.
BL
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