Comments on: A Man’s Car Is (Not) HIs Castle http://www.vermontnewsguy.com/a-mans-car-is-not-his-castle Real News for Real Vermonters Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:59:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: markf http://www.vermontnewsguy.com/a-mans-car-is-not-his-castle/comment-page-1#comment-676 markf Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:39:01 +0000 http://www.vermontnewsguy.com/?p=1720#comment-676 It may be kind not to name the businessman, but is kindness part of your remit? If a person makes comments - even foolish ones - at a public hearing, he's putting himself on the record. Your protection of his name merely spurred my interest and with a few strokes of the keyboard, I had it, because other news outlets printed it. (I could, but won't, write it here because that's not the point.) Oddly enough, this morning's Free Press has a story about a Bristol police officer who handcuffed a prisoner outside in the cold for 30 minutes. The prisoner's alleged offense was not newsworthy, her status as victim of official neglect was and yet the Free Press printed her name and withheld the name of the officer who allegedly neglected her. I had hopes your blog might raise the Free Press's standards. Please tell me it's not going the other way. It may be kind not to name the businessman, but is kindness part of your remit? If a person makes comments – even foolish ones – at a public hearing, he’s putting himself on the record. Your protection of his name merely spurred my interest and with a few strokes of the keyboard, I had it, because other news outlets printed it. (I could, but won’t, write it here because that’s not the point.)

Oddly enough, this morning’s Free Press has a story about a Bristol police officer who handcuffed a prisoner outside in the cold for 30 minutes. The prisoner’s alleged offense was not newsworthy, her status as victim of official neglect was and yet the Free Press printed her name and withheld the name of the officer who allegedly neglected her.

I had hopes your blog might raise the Free Press’s standards. Please tell me it’s not going the other way.

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