Friday, November 2, 2012

Seattle Times Buries Info that is Critical of Initiative I-1240 | Seattle Education

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Seattle Times Buries Info that is Critical of Initiative I-1240

Over at the Seattle-McKenna Times, the ‘copy editors’ continue to allow errors in the headlines of stories that contain negative viewpoints on I-1240, the pro-charter initiative its publishers support.
Take a look: The headline in yesterday’s Letters section about the charter school initiative(1240) erroneously lists the number for the legalizing marijuana initiative (502).
It’s hard to believe this is accidental. There are layers of editors and copy editors and the writers themselves who all could have and should have caught