I'm glad Russell agrees our story was accurate and fair, if not exactly what he and Ken Avidor (who talked to Robyn yesterday) want. (Ken wrote me to complain that Jeff Carlson's guitar playing wasn't mentioned in the story - alas, a casualty of not having been there, and something I viewed as not essential news...my editorial choice.)
This is trivializing what Ken Avidor said. I've gotten copies of the complete thread of correspondance between David Brauer and Ken Avidor - with permission from Avidor to post it. I've posted the correspondance on the Central Chat egroup:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/central-chat/message/719
The Spokesman Recorder also covered this meeting - and the Lake St Project in more depth:
http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=35442&sID=4
Isaac Peterson, the author of this article won an award for his coverage of the 35W issue.
As for my larger editorial choices bullying is increasingly being viewed as a major mental health problem that surveys say affect somewhere between 8 and 15 percent of school kids. Minneapolis Schools have a relatively new districtwide response to it, and we wanted to see how it worked. Check it out; lots of good interviews with kids affected.
I wouldn't disagree with this editorial choice. I think that it's interesting that according to the correspondance between Ken Avidor and David Brauer, it appears that Jeff Carlson's guitar playing stunt was mentioned in Repka's original story - but removed by Brauer's editorial choice.
In this correspondance, Brauer also says the Spokesman article was a press release from Stride - so I went and read the article:
http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=35442&sID=4
And it's not a press release. It's a report about this meeting - and other issues related to the Lake Street PAC. The Spokesman did have a letter to the editor by a Stride member.
When I got a note about this issue from Avidor - I sent a note to Robin Repka (the reporter) and David Brauer (Editor of SW Journal/Skyway News - and also List Meister here) - to check the facts. Both told me that Robin had not attended the meeting - but that she had called multiple people - not just Tom Johnson to put her story together.
I appreciate that the Spokesman Recorder has been covering this issue.
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