Thursday, June 25, 2009

Another "press release journalism" hit job

How would you respond if one of your enemies put out a press release about you and the newspaper called you for a response, but you couldn't see details of what was said?

When it happened to Kentucky Coal Association's Bill Caylor Wednesday, he said he hadn't seen the "study" put out by MACED, a left-wing advocacy group based in Berea.

But the Lexington Herald Leader went ahead and ran a front page story:



Fortunately, Kentucky now has independent blogs. To see CyberHillbilly's response to the silliness, click here.

1 Comments:

At 9:35 PM, Anonymous Cyber said...

Thanks for the plug, David.

Since when did Cheeves handle economic development stories? I don't follow this paper very closely, but I always thought they only trotted him out when they wanted a hit piece. Any ideas?

 

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