| Show 1 em ir i AA2 TheSalt Lake Tribune OPINION Sunday DecemW wost Tribune Faux Pas 'Tame' Compared to Some Newspapers' done it or condemn it" Besides she said agree or not most readers seem to find the story pretty interesting READER ADVOCATE i£th-- i iHn yV'" J5k n SHINIKA SYKES think tf0U now and Salt Lake ime then? Here are some aux pas from other newspapers conto me by fellow reader advocates: veyed The Wrong Photo — Following Monday s breaking news story about a boy who shot eight students killing three at a high school in West uducah- Ky The Courier-Journa- l in Louisville put the story and a photo of the suspect on the front page of the next day s paper Under deadline pressure The Courier pulled a photo of the teen-ag- e trom the school's yearbook On suspect Tuesday the paper learned that the mug shot was not that of the suspect shooter Although the photojournalist who took the picture from the yearbook is expected to get a lot of heat for this grave foul-usaid public editor Linda Raymond this is not a error "A newspaper is a team effort and when there is even one screw-uit means the team - 1 x 'THEPGCUNEOF If AMERICAN EPUCATIQN' TERM PAPER ON? V ( Burned Up About Headline — While readers are quick to point it out when a newspaper misses a story they also are sensitive to coverage that might provoke problems What bothered some San Diego-UnioTribune readers was the headline on a story about wildfires plaguing the area The main headline: "A Lot of Fires But Small Ones" was OK It was the subhead (or "deck" in newspaper lingo) that stirred up trouble It said "County Has Been Lucky So Far But It's Still Callers complained to readers' Early" representative Gina Lubrano that the newspaper was giving would-b- e arsonists a idea Lubrano disagreed It was not she wrote as if the paper provided the ingredients to a pipe bomb or said "Yo fire bugs do your stuff" sx S I 7 1997 nJjBb ' ' 1 J — ITOFpN ftMil THEiNrERNET LIFTED )— I 7T Unhappy on Halloween — Like their counterparts in Utah and elsewhere readers of the Kansas City Star tend to second-gues- s their newspaper on what should or should not be front-pagfare On Oct 31 some told readers' representative Miriam Pepper they did not like that day's choice for a lead story (about Chinese President Jiang Zemin's US visLetters from The Tribune's readers it) However they said a follow-u- p story about Chinese nationals' questionable contribution to the Democrats (on Page 6) should have been on the front page SevSalt Lake County's Positives eral readers also did not care for the spe failed" Pay as You Go on Where to Write With all the bad news about cial Hauoween edition They said it was On Wednesday The Courier county published seems to me that our It too (gasp!) When submitting letters to the Public an unprecedented front-pag- e primary objecfrightful These complaints government the voters need to know that correction tives with are to reduce traffic in and others said Pepper added up to a they do a pretty good job of selecting Forum please include your full name sigand an apology to the teen whose picture elected officials For every ounce of negpeak hours and to reduce air pollution "liberal conspiracy" nature address and daytime was erroneously telephone published To these ends I would like to ative reports there are tons of very posinumbers Information other than your suggest some ideas for consideration tive functions taking place at the name and the city in which you live are county Graphic Birth Photos: More than 30 for the The Ethnicity Question — Readers I suggest a fee system good of the citizens The county is kept confidential took the Minneapolis Star Tribune to readers called Mike Clark reader advoNext to the e a very complex and II Keep it short Concise letters at the lights cate Times-Uniocomplicated at the place developFlorida in Jacktask when a story reporting the cause of entrances there could be a machine where a services are theme to many ing are more the to single be provided to sonville likely a fire that killed four complain about the photos citizens of Salt Lake e with a laser reader When a car people began: "A published County These go on fire that killed a Hmong couple and two that accompanied a special feature about in spite of all e the stops by hear Please The light the laser you offielected type and double space a of their grandchildren " experience would read the rider's bank account cials and the employees of Salt Lake Letters are condensed and edited Clark wrote that readers described the Readers' representative Lou Gelfand number off a plate on the driver's lower Because of the volume of mail re County work very hard in your best interphotos as "disgusting" and "tasteless" — ests wrote that among those who door panel ceived not all submissions are questioned published especially the photo of the mother in the If the scanner system goes down then identifying the victims as Hmong (Southis to It to Mail Public Forum The Salt Lake st easy focus on the npuntivo bathtub He that the photos wareast Asian) several said "If the cars could be permitted by the off-sit- e is always important not to lose Tribune PO Box 867 Salt Lake City they were ranted a PG-1- agreed or at least of sight a warnrating miiKaii Americans you wouldn t have person to go through without the the positive in order to go forward Utah 84110 We ing note on Page A-- l said that their nationality was not pertscanner operating If people falsify the are quick to believe that everyone is a Our fax number is (801) inent" piate on their car they'd lose their li crook The media is under fire for their Gelfand agreed but explained in his cense Wrong Navy Uniform: The Brazilian aggressive pursuit of news — used-ca- r If the driver is a weekly column that due to space limitaNavy was not happy that the Rio de Janeidrivsalesmen bamboozle us attorneys endure tions this paragraph was edited out: ro newspaper O Dia ran a photo er the computer in the machine would contractors ridiculing showing are jokes Insurance Rates Rising greedy deduct say $5 from the person's bank "Yang was a spiritual leader among his a male sailor kissing another man with a politicians are all jerks public employrelatives — more than 100 families — and feature story headlined "Looking for ees are account Attention Utah sport utility vehicle lazy The only one to garner posiin the greater Twin Cities Hmong comIf for some reason the scanner could van and truck owners! I noticed a small Gays in the Navy" tive feelings was Mother Teresa not read a e The controversy was reported by Mar-cel- o Associated Press article several weeks munity he also has been a shaman and We need to take heart We are a thrivplate a speaker in government-appointethe machine would enable an off site emLeite who is the ombudsman of anleader in Laos betitled ago "Insurance Rates Rise for nation May we and can only be that way by fore he and his family left in 1987" other Brazilian newspaper Folha deSao ing ployee to ask the person for their bank Big Vehicles" (Tribune Oct 19) In the pursuing positive ways People are basiThe paragraph Gelfand said justified Paulo As Leite explained it the navy cally 70s insurance companies raised the account number They could speak and and have solid good morals and care the Hmong identification However complained to the Brazilian Press Associrates on the popular new give this into the machine about their fellow human beings It is the "economy" cars when it was deleted the ation (an independent body set up to meIf the person is driving in a because were Hmong referas they the carpool the "dangerous" goodness that is in us all that promotes ence also should have been taken out e diate media disputes) that the photo was scanner would read computer and drivers passengers "were likemore Are we perfect? No Never prosperity the plate and the computer would recogstaged and the uniform was not official — will be But it is the ly to be injured" in accidents and big cars pursuit of perfection it had stars instead of anchors nize that this is a carpool were the norm Meanwhile the Big Three The Upside-dowthat person and In drives us forward Texas readand makes us look Flag: O Dia admitted to sold small cars by the millions and insurcharge that person a lesser rate say $2 ers at the Amarillo Globe-New- s staging the photo forward to each new day were not wrote Leite but There must be allowances for hardance profits soared asserted that the young amused by the story and photo of a man Voters need to take heart and vote man really is a sailor — the fake uniform Now 20 years later they If a person is handicapped or elships who flew his US flag say You higher do down in a upside again job Our comrates are due because SUVs "cause more derly and cannot be out in the cold waitfront of both his business and home to was rented by the reporter because the missioners are very good doing so many things sailor did not have his own uniform ing for a bus or there are no bus injury" in accidents SUVs are now exprotest the Clinton presidency right Our sheriff attorneys auditor connections to their work area these Globe-New- s handy s in tremely the popular readers told reader rep especially treasurer valley clerk surveyor assessor and! could be charged at a reduced rate (No That explanation did not satisfy because so many of us drive in unpredictJeff Langley that it was outrageous unI even yes your recorder all have your the Brazilian Navy) able weather to get to the canyonsmounsay $1 There would need to be a motor patriotic and divisive for the newspaper best interests at heart vehicle department board to review tains The bean counters know this and to show the flag in that manner and When we read all the negative inforthey did the math: Hiking rates by 20 percent hardship cases also said the story should not have been mation it is discouraging not only for The Reader Advocate's phone number The funds could be used in many ways over on the front page slowly hides the eight years jump voters but also for rlnso Rlinnnrtflrc i 4 is 237-201Write to the Reader Advoto reduce traffic and air pollution xo niiu from Globe-New- s the unaware consumer For ""fui while Executive Editor Beth cate The Salt Lake Tribune PO Box family as well as employees who work reap billions in unrealized profits they example the state could help buy more Duke reminded people that "just because hard to provide services to the citizens of 867 Salt Lake City Utah 84110 buses and carpool vans and help with the Do they have the data and an unbiased we report an action doesn't mean we con Salt Lake I feel bad for you and reader advocatesltrib com installation of natural-ga- s to prove SUVs' lawsuits hope or electric-fue- l large study that while you read the negative know systems The money could also be used damages injuries thefts and other that there is so much more positive in all for a light-rapayouts are increasing? Can they prove system our endeavors and we can all take heart are losing money? The industry is DAVID PUTNAM JR they feel good about ourselves and move forCenterville contradicting itself and I suspect profit ward motive is the driving force in rate NANCY WORKMAN changes Small margins amplified by milSalt Lake County Recorder lions equals more millions Why else the Salt Lake City change in policy? Defining Family if we re required by law to have insurenough by itself to establish the "insanI think our state legislators Just when defense" to a crime ance those who sell it should be ity OF LAW required cannot come up with another resolution — law to A their by UTA actions mmn w honeswith justify Routes HMms— yw— or law to bring us into the public eye for insanity findty (by the way I am grateful when I get ing traditionally requires a showing that foolishness I rode a UTA bus the last three they pull through helped out but I pay in thousands more the defendant at the time of the crime years Thank you Rep Evan Olsen for again that I worked at Bacchus Works I could than I receive) having was unable to distinguish the foresight to think up a resolution right from ride either the early morning and 4 p m that MARK KULBIEDA wrong or understand the consequences of Route 40 or take will define family for us (Tribune Nov Route 82 Both were his actions Salt Lake City 15) And I'm relieved to hear that this available to me within 200 feet of my will define family as "a man and a wom"Guilty but mentallv iH" front door and both dropped me at the an legally married and their children more appropriate finding That's where ouunmsirauon ouuaing at Bacchus A Plea for Candidates the jury finds the defendant 100 percent Works Even the full price which was 50 Now at least we know what a iiiiiiiiimiiimmiiib'iiKi-cents on Route 40 and 60 cents on Route In about three months it will be time guilty as charged but also determines Mil iin family that he's crazy enough that a mental hosIt is not a woman who is widowed isnt 82 each way was less for state and local candicongressional than expensive edward Mcdonough and is a more appropriate place to send driving my older vehicle alone pital dates to file with the county elections ofraising her children it is not a single By bus him than prison parent perhaps divorced who is raising the trip took 10 minutes longer than drivfice to run in next November's political The defense lawyers in the unibomber hisher children it is not an elderly couraces All of the Utah County officers are Whatever the effect this giant piece of ing trial last week arranged for the transporple living apart from their children for I When to want up demonstrative to comone for evidence Albion has on the outgo except Basin at tation of Theodore Kaczynski's Montana Do you really want to define missioner's Alta seat come Four of ski the season I prefer to take a family? unibomber trial in Sacramenduring years ago all but a Please use the woods cabin to California for a trial exski bus It is more convenient and easier to it's bound to have an effect on the size dictionary it's kinder and couple of those elected offices were unhibit The cabin which Kaczynski built much less on me than driving and much contested in the general election That is discriminatory and scope and showbiz pizazz of future himself 20 years ago near Lincoln Mont not very good democracy! ANN GRIFFITHS because I qualify for senior rates cheaper trials trial lawyers generally being the When I measures 12 by 10 by 13 feet Two years ago all of the state n want to go to the U I might take the bus showmen that they are Murray represenAfter abandoning a career as a math tatives were up for if I will be there for more than two hours The maBack in the days when I did such things But if I'm just dropping off a book at jority of them were unopposed (at least in professor Kaczynski lived in the shack as jury trial work the biggest exhibit I for two decades as a hermit doing withUtah County) What good is a Marriott Library it is faster and easier to ever democracy to took court was a scale model of a drive out running water or electricity His lawor republic based on free elections Growing Pains we have two choices of if Again e truck with a loading "tipple" is no there yer Quin Denvir says this shows Kacroutes choice? We 200 feet have from had our Utah front just In door Tonka Truck you could push underneath response to Britta Nilsson (Forum zynski is crazy — too mentally ill to have A person who drives or who rides the County politicians walk into office withNov 20) the practice of not Because I was the junior man on that trial formed the requisite legal intent to comout trusting a vote in favor or against them! single bus can't help but notice how the current team Bob Wright eot to take thp Mhihit people younger than adults has been gomit the crimes he is charged with sending The political number in of buses Utah atmosphere blocks on so home for his den after the trial It hadn't traffic for a long time ing badly deadly bombs through the mail County (and the state) is getting sicker there are some children inUnfortunately occurred to either of us that we could except on the widened State Street or on the world who and sicker There is Seventh East One day at the U while I Kaczynski's targets were mostly comsomething wrong cannot abide by the rules This have hauled the actual gigantic of a when piece was waiting for the shuttle three UTA major issue in the Legislature is puter science academics and researchers affects everybody because stores usually machinery from Colorado to federal cannot whether or not to with whom the unibomber's buses concealed to the permit same stop at the tell by how you look or what you pulled up court in Salt Lake writings buy if weapons in churches and schools! Are we identified the ills of the world and the clerk to mark it as City and asked the same time going west on South you are going to steal from them Campus Plaintiffs Exhibit "A" to some threats to the future His lawyers say this Wild West retrogressing Drive near Wasatch Boulevard Some This goes back to the age-ol- d But now the sky's the limit Imagine traffic "punish of our history? What have we perioda also shows that Kaczynski is west was blocked until each the got whole class because one student is going mentally unthe OJ Simpson murder trial with the got its fares and moved out And both of bunch of paranoid gun fanatics up on balanced talking" rule No it isn't fair that a few White Bronco slowly being pushed down Capitol Hill? those streets are so loaded that neither bad children ruin the privileges of those But an eccentric lifestyle or the the center aisle of the courtroom a espousWe need more women in public office giant need to be blocked who do not have harmful intentions As al of strange beliefs do not make one leyellow evidence tag hanging from the d They seem to be more How as far the number of Doubling buses there gally insane If they did space would rear-vieoutside mirror Or the Alaska would make it worse I don't believe long has it been since we had a woman on stores overcharging "convenience" have to be found in mental hospitals for oil the the Utah County Commission or as coun- - feel badovercharge everybody So don't spill trial of the skipper of the Exxon editoralist's solution of many sitting members of Congress as well Valdez Now there could be a fete of deincreasing taxes ty attorney? How about a congresswom-an- ? and adding money (Tribune Nov 16) is The only thing I can suggest is that you as a representative sampling of our leadfense lawyer showmanship worth The filing dates are March 7 The going all and that's ers in business and industry needed Fares must your classmates continue to be honbe drastiback to trial work for only qualifications for most offices is citiest and help fight against the things that cally reduced for all riders and routes And even if Kaczynski were shown to zenship legal age and residence Let's must be improved are wrong in the world You are the fube mentally ill (the defense theory is that nave a challenger in every office! Edward ture of this world THOMAS O BREITLING he's a paranoid schizophrenic) that is not in Salt Lake McDonough practices law GENE FAUX City LORRAINE SEARS Holladay Springville Salt Lake City e THE PUBLIC FORUM p one-perso- n p 1-- timed-releas- I-- n bar-cod- timed-releas- home-birthin- g ht 3 237-231- 6 t single-occupa- bar-cod- d -- bar-cod- n per-son- 5 Kaczynski Trial Could Establish Big Precedent for Showmanship il POINT -- ego-drive- coal-min- level-heade- w J |
