The Provo Daily Herald and the City of Orem are locked in a spin battle for the minds of Utah's news media over a story the Daily Herald recently ran about the city tossing women and children out "in a snowbank." Here's the article:

Citing zoning violation, Orem evicts women, infant

An outraged Orem Police mouthpiece, Lt. Douglas Edwards, responded to the story in a press release fired off to the state's news media, arguing the the Daily Herald got the facts wrong and was manipulated by an alleged scoff-law landlord.

The Daily Herald’s report that Orem officers evicted tenants from the homes is blatantly false and . . . was published in reckless disregard for the truth.

The City feels compelled to state that we are disappointed in the reporting conducted by the Daily Herald. We believe that the articles published on this matter have been written with the intent to sensationalize and scandalize rather than objectively report the truth. It appears that inadequate attention has been paid to accuracy in reporting and to presenting the facts in context. We hope that a return to more objective and accurate reporting will be the norm in the future.

In an unusual move, the Daily Herald's metro editor fired back by sending a press release to her news media "colleagues":

There is no issue of accuracy or incomplete sourcing in our first story. The story not only represented the viewpoint of the landlord, . . . but also the view of the city through the mayor, the deputy city attorney and the neighbors . . . .

She acknowledged a later story was wrong in saying the cops evicted the residents: "The Daily Herald is publishing a clarification on this point."

But what I like best is cool comic-book byline on the article:
Ace Stryker - Daily Herald.