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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,
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> 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.
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> Each of the candidates for North Carolina governor, including Barbara Howe,
> will be profiled following the July 20 primary.
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> 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
10:23:34 PM
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