Operators are I am standing by
JR already has addressed the self-serving unsigned editorial splashed on the front page of State Rep. Earl Jones' Greensboro Times. But inasmuch as I contributed some of our Project Homestead coverage and edited much of the rest, I'm taking the additional step of inviting Rep. Jones to point out, in all our Homestead coverage, a single example of "false allegations," "deception," "publishing false and misleading information" or "sloppy, questionable and racially charged bias [sic] journalism."
I issue this invitation because the Times' lengthy, unsigned, front-page diatribe, and Jones' bylined "Publisher's View," fail to identify a single one and are, themselves, riddled with factual errors. Those errors begin, as JR noted, with the headline claim that Homestead has been "cleared" and continue right through to the end, where the article claims that JR was "hired" in 1999. (He was already here when I was hired here 19 years ago.)
I could be wrong. It's certainly possible that we've made mistakes in our coverage. If we have, we'll correct them. So I await his getting in touch.
But as I wait, I'm confident that if we'd made any mistakes of the type Jones alleges, someone, somewhere, would have brought them to our attention before now.