Re: [Paddlewise] Fatality at Cabbage Key

From: Wes Boyd <boydwe_at_dmci.net>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 10:59:54
At 06:58 AM 4/8/02 -0700, Dave Kruger wrote:
><skimmer_at_mail3.enter.net> [Charles Sutherland] wrote:
>

>We will never know for sure what happened to the guy.  I join you and
others in bemoaning the
>unenlightened reporting of the incident in the local press.

It certianly was a lousy, lazy, and possibly unethical job of reporting and
headline writing, almost to the point of libel. In my own case, I would
never say that alcohol was a contributing factor to any kind of accident
unless I could clearly quote a police report. 

I frankly thing the quality of local news coverage has gone down on a
nationwide basis in the past few years, but I'm not going to get up on that
soap box right now.

-- Wes
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