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Important Details Left Out?
Jun 2011
I know you folks are always short of space, but in your last edition, some important details got inadvertently left out:
1) In your review of Brian Scarfe's report on cruise ships, you accidentally omitted the critical detail that Mr. Scarfe lives next door to the cruise-ship docks, and has been campaigning against them for years. Readers surely would like to know that.
2) In the JBNA report, you note that a developer wants to put a huge house on a tiny lot at 334 Niagara. What you forgot to mention was that he proposes to demolish a charming example of the Queen Anne style of architecture, likely built in 1898, and certainly more than a century old. Has thought been given to restoring the house? To moving it? Why is the landfill so often regarded as the solution? Readers need that information.
3) In a piece titled "Exotic Diversions" (Why "exotic"? That means foreign!), you write about two Belleville Street houses, but forgot to give credit to the sources. As a guess, most of that material was found in This Old House: James Bay, and I'm sure that (in your constant pursuit of fair and objective journalism) you meant to give credit. Even if it was laboriously researched in the archives, readers would like to know.
Citing sources adds to credibility. And of course when they are NOT given (and, even worse, when the author insists on anonymity or a pseudonym), all credibility is lost.
Nick Russell