I am frightened.
I’ve been reading today’s editorial on TIFs and enterprise zones, and I can’t find anything to really snicker at, especially since they came clean on having benefited from one, thus giving critics one less thing to sneer at.
Oh, I would have said ‘no’ to the $6 million Firefly Energy loan guarantee simply on [...]
December 30, 2007 in Local
Tags: DD Pizza, editorials, enterprise zones, Journal Star, TIF | 2 Comments »
From my inbox:
Mr. Dennis,
As a frequent reader, I appreciate your work.
As a journalist, I was a little surprised recently when you chose to highlight an anonymous blogger’s criticism of my recent column that shared a public
document with the actual public.
That bottom line is no one disputes the accuracy of that report, which allowed readers a [...]
November 27, 2006 in Citizen Journalism
Tags: anonymous blogging, editorials, Pekin Daily Times | 9 Comments »
Who said this:
Unfortunately, several of our editorials … have been based on faulty facts, providing nothing but misinformation and misrepresentation. This is unacceptable, considering that the purpose of our opinions page is to facilitate meaningful dialogue among the members of the campus community and beyond.
Unfortunately, it was the Daily Illini, and not the Journal [...]
September 23, 2006 in Watchdog
Tags: Daily Illini, editorials, Journal Star | 1 Comment »