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Ed Martin on H-T -- "hit by a bus"

From: JP -- venfl.com
Date: 05/09/08
Time: 03:36 PM

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Found this while I was snooping around, I missed it when it was first posted by Hizzoner to the Herald-Trib.

So Ed. was it a SCAT bus?

From: Ed Martin, Mayor
To: Mike Connelly, editor, Herald-Tribune
Date: May 3, 2008
Subject: possible reply to HT story.

     Mr. Connelly, I am considering writing a reply to the HT story and I would like to ask you a couple of questions with your answers to be included.
     "What made you decide this was a top of page one story, five column head, photos, etc."
     "Given that the second story and correction moderated the charges and tone, does that suggest the original editorial judgment was mistaken?"
     "Is a change in vetting a page one story, or any major story, called for?"
     I feel like a person walking along the sidewalk hit by a bus the equivalent of a five column story on page one. In the aftermath the bus company says, we are sorry we hit you, but you should not have been walking so near the street, even though on the sidewalk.
     I think the public needs to know how this happened.
     I am not your public editor, but I believe I would try to write it in that style, pluses and minuses, with my view the minuses outweigh the pluses.
     Thank you for the partial retraction/correction.

Ed Martin