News-Record.com

My colleague Doug Clark gets it right yesterday in his response to a column in the paper about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report.

The N&R has covered the T&R process consistently, exhaustively and, in my opinion, redundantly as well.

When we have written about the TRC, particularly since its report was released, we've gotten two responses, both about equally. One side says we didn't cover it well or in enough depth, a complaint I understand. Another side -- not the other side -- says we shouldn't cover it at all: the report is out, not much is happening with it so let it be.

The response from the passionate partisans isn't much different than we get on most controversial issues. You should have seen it in the midst of the Fedex and baseball days.

I don't think we covered it all that well, but I also don't think Greensboro citizens were left in the dark about it. I've questioned our coverage of the T&R Project's continued public meetings, not because of the topic, but because so little new seems to happen. Yet we have covered them. And we'll continue to follow the process.