Tuesday, August 23, 2005

No good comments this week

This week wasn't really good for blatant mistakes in Gil's column. After the flub of District 16, Gil kept a close eye this week on his facts.

About the closest I came to finding a mistake was Gil calling Robert Casey Jr. an "anointed nominee" of sorts. It's not technically a mistake, I suppose. I guess you can call senators running for office "nominees". I usually think of them more as "candidates" than nominees, though. After all, who really "nominates" senators? They're elected, not appointed. But technically, you could get away with it, I suppose, depending on your definition of nominee. After all, there are presidential nominees.

And I suppose that technically he never came out and said Pennacchio was pro-choice. He sort of implied that Casey had an advantage over Pennacchio on this issue implying there was a difference of opinion. Because truthfully, Pennacchio's position on his website states that he wants abortion to be "rare". And he talks about a "pro-life" America. Technically, not a mistake. A little misleading maybe, but not a mistake.

Other than that, not much to fact check in this article, I noted.

Still, it's sort of iffy for being on the front page of the Lancaster section which does not identify the column as being editorial in nature (which is where it really belongs). Definately not a good place to get your factual news.

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