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āI hope maybe you can update your piece to indicate that, since as
editor, I would never approve such a column,ā Pfankuch told TPM in the email.
Now his PUBLISHER, on the other hand, would approve it in a New York Minute
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Iām confused. The guy says it would never pass muster in his newspaper but he has no problem with it appearing on their website? WTF kind of weasel words are those? And then he adds that heās open to a column by her on arming teachers? This editor talks out of both sides of his mouth. Pfft!
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Wellā¦
āWeāre actually talking now about whether to do a piece for the daily on a lawmaker who says such things,ā he wrote. āSheās been out there in a lot of thingsā¦but this is a Whaaaaa? moment I donāt think we can ignore.ā
Iāll forgive him if he follows thru on the above.
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Welcome to the Wonderful World of Gannett newspapers!
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Dudeās name is basically āpancakeā (shortened version Iām guessing). Story just hit plaid speed.
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I live in SD, in Sioux Falls. Sioux Falls is in the āliberalā eastern part of the state. The western part of the state, āwest-riverā, is filled with insane wacks. One person running in 2012 used the slogan āStop socialism in South Dakotaā. Now, for those of you nodding in agreement, there is absolutely none of the dreaded S-word in South Dakota. The west-river wacks are nuts. Most areas out there donāt even get democrats to run against the Republicans.
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Whatās the ratio of Native Americans there?
This must be common. I note our local suburban daily allows ā yea, encourages and publishes the most outrageous anti-Obama, anti-Dem letters and columns shamelessly, then wonders why circulation keeps falling.
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This is like her Sharon Angle moment, ā2nd amendment remediesā for her.
The state of SD has about 900,000 residents, and possibly 100,000 Indians. There are 9 reservations (Pine Ridge, Rosebud, probably the best known). I myself work in a group that has a large Indian section, and we do research with the Indian tribes (parenthetical note: I asked one of the Indians what the term to use is, and he said āIndianā; I would imagine that YMMV). In SD, Democrats do well when the Indian vote is strong, and do poorly when the Indian vote is weak.
In the city of Sioux Falls itself, there are a fair number of Indians. But the res populations are high.
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The amount of hot air produced by stupid white people is an inexhaustible natural resource that we need to take advantage of. If we harnessed such stupidity intelligently, we could solve our energy problems overnight.
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** I think the score was Harding County 36 to 18 over Hill City.
A second American journalist, Steven Sotloff, was beheaded by ISIS this week**
And these are exactly the sorts of issues a state politician should be given a megaphone to address.
Because a football score is exactly like an international issue.
Also? Because a continuing virulent nuttiness that connects every awful thing to that black guy in the White House is also accepted and goes without saying.
SSDD
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My local giveaway fishwrap, The San Mateo Daily Journal, is a mere cog in a corporate-owned multistate network of papers that each puts on the pretense of being ālocally-owned and operatedā and ātotally independent.ā
As you might imagine, they publish letters from astroturfing nutters (of the ājust asking questionsā variety) with regular frequency (a frequency in clear violation of their own printed policies), and print liberal debunking distinctly less often for appearances. Every headline about Obama is written to make him seem desperate and weak, or overreaching. There was a period where the low-rent comics section ran Mallard Fillmore, then Day by Day, then Prickly City, finally giving up after the incredibly racist State of the Union flashed in its pan.
It exists to keep the elderly and poorly-educated scared and voting Republican. (I continue to pick up a copy only to kill some time with the Sudoku and KenKen.)
Yes, you are.
Pfankuch also said that Olson, who led the post-Sandy Hook effort to arm teachers in South Dakota, might end up inspiring a piece in the Journal.
"Weāre actually talking now about whether to do a piece for the daily on a lawmaker who says such things," he wrote.
A column written āonā a person is significantly different from a column written ābyā that same person.
Just thought you should know.
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My mistakeā¦In my reading I got my preposition wrong. Still doesnāt explain why he pretends the paperās website reporting is somehow unattached from his paper.
Thatās okay. The article wasnāt very clearly written, but then itās by Tom Kludt so not unexpected.
On the other, my guess would be that he doesnāt have editorial control over the website, just the print edition. As I say, thatās just a guess, but often things appear on a website that would never make it into print because of different management structures.
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