Comforting the afflicted
Pen for hire LaVarr Webb tries to create a veneer of objectivity for his online newsletter, Utahpolicy.com. But one of his recent items undermines that image.
Webb took me to task for reporting a story about realtor influence at the Legislature. I cited $325,000 in political contributions this campaign season. Accepting Utah Association of Realtors Director Chris Kyler's parsing of that number, Webb repeated it verbatim today, noting Kyler's explanation that not all of that money goes to legislative candidates. Some goes to federal candidates and some goes to local candidates.
"The story wasn't careful with the facts regarding how much the association has contributed to legislative candidates," Webb wrote.
The Tribune rejected the Realtors' demand for a correction, standing by the $325,000 as the amount the Association itself reported it spending during the current election year.
The back story is this: Two weeks ago Webb acknowledged Kyler had asked him to write a column on the issue. At the time, Webb said he had no plans to run an item. But apparently the Realtors' money was too tempting to pass up. The association has advertised on the site in the past.
-- Rebecca Walsh
Webb took me to task for reporting a story about realtor influence at the Legislature. I cited $325,000 in political contributions this campaign season. Accepting Utah Association of Realtors Director Chris Kyler's parsing of that number, Webb repeated it verbatim today, noting Kyler's explanation that not all of that money goes to legislative candidates. Some goes to federal candidates and some goes to local candidates.
"The story wasn't careful with the facts regarding how much the association has contributed to legislative candidates," Webb wrote.
The Tribune rejected the Realtors' demand for a correction, standing by the $325,000 as the amount the Association itself reported it spending during the current election year.
The back story is this: Two weeks ago Webb acknowledged Kyler had asked him to write a column on the issue. At the time, Webb said he had no plans to run an item. But apparently the Realtors' money was too tempting to pass up. The association has advertised on the site in the past.
-- Rebecca Walsh
4:35 PM
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4 Comments:
Why act so suprised? Everybody knows the corporate media of amerika is in serious trouble and has almost no credibility.
Monopolies, payoffs, nepotism.
What else could explain the immoral position taken by the fat, stupid, selfish lazy, creeps currently masquerading as amerikans.
the WWII crowd would have hung the torturefags from the nearest lzmp post.
RESIST THE CORPORATE NEWS FAKERS.
Yes. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Why hasn't the tribtoon done a real story on the tortures being inflicted on the muslims?
You ----ers are traitors to america.
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Dear Tribune and Walsh,
Are you guys not emberassed at how awful this blog and your newspaper has become? The slant that ESPECIALLY Rebecca Walsh put into every story and this blog makes me think of the crack pot, city weekly paper, not a supposed professional newspaper. You guys are a pathetic, disgrace...Rebecca, where did you go to reporters school? I wonder because EVERYTHING you write is slanted, you can not even do a regular news story without it showing your personal bias. Other writers have learned to at least shield their bias, but not you. You are kinda like an old high school paper writer...
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