JBelle: When Is SR Going To Give Up RPS?
JBelle: When is the Spokesman Review going to give up the RPS reporting mess? Now they have commissioned an independent review of their coverage? oh my. This is soooo 5 years ago. Move on Steve! Move on Stacey! We have! Cover the County Commissioner like you've never covered anything else and you'll get your self esteem back; please don't beleaguer your errors and omissions any longer. If the employees' self esteem is lagging, get the shareholders to give them a little extra with their Christmas bonus. Bet that'll help. Otherwise tell them to buck up. We jus' don' need no more RPS. Nooooooooooo.
DFO: JBelle's talking about Editor Steve Smith's column in this morning's paper in which he promised a thorough independent review of the newspaper's coverage of the River Park Square controversy from 1994 through 2005. Steve made it clear that the review isn't going to regurgitate the issue. Rather, the newspaper coverage is going to come under scrutiny. Many believe that we didn't cover the issue properly because our bosses, the Cowles, were involved in the controversy. A review could give us a chance to study where we misstepped and learn from those mistakes, so we don't repeat them.