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At the risk of sounding defensive on behalf of the N&R, I'd like to take issue with one statement in Jean Rodenbough's letter today:

"Although the Truth and Reconciliation Commission made international and national news, and was the first in this country to develop such a process, the efforts have received scant attention in the Greensboro community."

The fact that Rev. Rodenbough was writing a Counterpoint in response to an N&R news story belies her assertion that T&R Commission efforts have "received scant attention in the Greensboro community."

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

Furthermore, I have to question the suggestion that the T&R Commission's work received more national and international news coverage than it did locally.

The news coverage archive at the T&R Commission Web site isn't current, but it includes very little in the way of national and international coverage. Most of the archives link to Greensboro news media and blogs.

Same for the Latest News listed at the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconcilation Web site.

A Google search yields quite a few national stories about Greensboro Truth & Reconciliation over the years, but I don't find consistent or continuing coverage by any media organization. If there's been much international news, I don't know where it is.

Furthermore, what national news coverage there was seems to have peetered out.

Perhaps Rev. Rodenbough should put up some links on the Greensboro Truth & Community Reconciliation Project Web site so people in Greensboro can catch up with the national and international perspectives on this.

But it looks to me like the N&R has covered Greensboro T&R more extensively than any other sources.

That doesn't mean readers are going to assign it a higher priority than all the other concerns in their lives, or even read and care about it.

Maybe that's the real source of frustration for some people.