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Aug 08

7:50 AM

Rights of reporters Is this the paper of editors Lenoir Chambers and Louis Jaffee? They must be spinning in their graves. Just opposite the stated ideal of Frank Batten, 'Our duty is clear: It is to serve the public with skill and character, and to exercise First Amendment freedoms with vigor and responsibility,' is your Public Editor's report ('Newsroom faces stricter rules on campaigns,' Aug. 10) vindicating a decision that those same freedoms will now be denied by the paper to certain of its employees. This is 'skill' and 'character'?

This is 'vigor' misdirected and 'responsibility' strangely interpreted. The paper's 'ethics committee' might try to find a more appropriate name for itself. The ACLU must already be getting calls.

Rick Hite

Norfolk

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The problem

Submitted by charlesm on Sat, 08/16/2008 at 9:35 pm.

The problem is that one man's "truth", is another man's "lie". The problem is in the interpretation and the interpreter.

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Left Field

Submitted by jamesk79813 on Sat, 08/16/2008 at 7:27 pm.

When I read or hear that restrictions are going to be placed on what the media may or may not say, you can bet your last dollar they are trying to shut down the truth detectors. If you think not then what would be a reason for such action? If you report or comment on the truth (or lies) isn't that what freedom of the press is all about anyway?

Jim King

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