Shelley Powers was outright slandered by taking a sentence out of context from a comment she made: link.
This is part of the game of modern politics and modern media. The lack of apology from those involved is pretty damning, because no one wants to admit they participate in it or are part of the larger problem. A larger problem that is leading all of us to be less informed about the world around us when there is so much media available.
We have a responsibility one another. When you write from a position of trust – don’t abuse it.
Never did get an apology from anyone. I received the impression that they were annoyed at my concern, and puzzled at my anger.
At least the line was removed from the play.
Wow. It was good to see some folks who knew you as a commenter chimed in your defense. But that shouldn’t have been necessary.
Some newspaper organizations look at enabling comments as a necessary evil and it appears that your paper feels that way.
You can’t have a successful online community (which should be represented in their comments) with that kind of policy.