Mr. Mayor and the word 'finally'
Greensboro Mayor Keith Holliday is a frequent critic of this newspaper. This morning, during a break at the city council's monthly briefing session, he shared his latest concern (in a friendly, nonaggressive manner, I should add).
Last week, the city council discussed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report on the 1979 Klan-Nazi shootings. The mayor took exception to this headline: 'City finally joins "truth" dialogue.' He said the word finally smacked of editorializing, and readers shouldn't see that on presumably objective news pages. Things like that erode the public's trust in the newspaper, he said.
Hey - it was either blog the mayor's comments or the discussion on Land Development Ordinance Module 1B.
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Well, it IS editorializing. Those of us more mature (that is, older) readers remember our teachers telling us "who what where when and why" with everything else being called "yellow journalism."
The word that our Mayor objects to is one I find troubling if you're reporting facts, which is, I remember, what newspapers are supposed to report. "Finally" is a bit snarky, you think?
Posted on July 25, 2006 6:24 PM