My bad
There's a mistake in my article today about the council's discussion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report.
I said that Tom Phillips declared he wouldn't read the summary report. I should have typed full report instead of summary report. He read the executive summary a while back, and I've quoted him saying that in the past. He has said he didn't see anything in the executive summary that made him want to read the full report.
I'm the latest in a long line of city hall reporters who have learned the hard way that Tom will hold you accountable for every single word in your story. He believes, like we do, that every story should be 100 percent accurate. That's a good quality for him to have.
We'll run a correction in the newspaper tomorrow.
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There's another one:
"This from the same board that 15 months earlier declined to endorse the commission's work."
"Declined to endorse" isn't really accurate. Here's what happened:
Claudette Burroughs-White made a motion for the council to endorse a general statement of support for the TRC that she had written. Robbie Perkins countered with a substitute motion to "oppose the truth and reconciliation program." Don Vaughan asked for clarification, saying, "not to endorse, I guess?" Perkins corrected him: "To OPPOSE."
The vote to oppose the process passed 6-3 along racial lines.
The distinction was apparently important to the council members, so it seems incomplete and euphemistic to describe their vote of opposition as "declining to endorse."
Posted on July 19, 2006 2:37 PM
You're right. The council did vote to oppose the process - 6-3, along racial lines.
I wasn't trying to be weaselly with my language. I was just inexact. You make a good point, t, and I appreciate it.
In other business ... I'm so liking this blogging thing. I have now fulfilled my dream of using the word "weaselly" in a work context.
Posted on July 19, 2006 2:57 PM
and I certainly didn't think it was "weaselly". thanks for being open to the feedback.
Posted on July 19, 2006 4:24 PM