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	7/7/2004

Journalism 101

The NY Post was not the only media outlet blowing the facts in political news this week. Here is a posting from the Libertarian Party of North Carolina e-mail group that shows how NC journalism compares:

Good morning, According to this wral.com article: http://www.wral.com/politics/3494842/detail.html Fern Shubert is the "lone" female running for governor. This is incorrect. Barbara Howe is also running for governor and will be on the ballot statewide: http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/2004election/filing.pdf http://www.votehowe.com/ And I also note that on your main 'politics' page: http://www.wral.com/politics/index.html you list "Bush" and "Kerry" and then under "Other candidates/parties" you list Nader and Kucinich, neither of whom will be on the NC ballot, but not Badnarik (www.badnarik.org), the Libertarian candidate who -will- be on the NC ballot. I look forward to seeing these errors and omissions corrected quickly. Thanks for your time. -- Susan Hogarth : 919-906-2106

And WRAL's response:

Quoting msinger@ibsys.com: > Susan, > > Thanks for your note. > > The headline has been corrected to reflect that Fern Shubert is the lone > female candidate in the six-person GOP gubernatorial primary. > > Each of the candidates for North Carolina governor, including Barbara Howe, > will be profiled following the July 20 primary. > > We are currently adding information about the Libertarian party and its > presidential candidate to our politics page. > > > Thanks for visiting WRAL.com Your questions and comments are always welcome. > > Michelle Singer > WRAL.com

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