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Newspaper's goal is to portray life in this community One of the main goals of this newspaper each week is to provide an accurate representation of life in this community. This is important now - for citizens to know about coming events; about public affairs; and about individual achievements, needs, or disappointments. It is important for the future - for historians to know how the community was shaped, who helped shape it, and what the people were like at any given time. At The News-Reporter, we feel that we do a fair job of meeting this goal. However, we are all human and errors and inaccuracies do show up no matter how hard we try to guard against them. For those we sincerely apologize and deeply regret any hard feelings they may cause. At the same time, in our quest to portray life in this community, we run a weekly risk of making somebody mad. Each week we have to run things like foreclosures, court reports, and other things which may cause unhappiness to some readers. Those thing cannot be helped and we are sorry to have to print them. At last Monday's Washington City Council meeting, Councilman Nathaniel Cullars was unhappy with two inaccuracies in The News- Reporter and with the story about his son's sentencing in a federal cocaine case. The first of the inaccuracies was in our story about the upcoming qualifying for candidates wishing to run for seats on the City Council. The lead sentence in the story said two seats will be filled but later in the story, it was correctly stated that two seats in District 2 and one seat in District 1, a total of three, would be filled. The other inaccuracy involved a discrepancy between the headline and the story about Ed Pope Jr. announcing his bid for re-election. The headline incorrectly stated District 1 while the story was correct in stating that the seat sought by Pope is for District 2. Both were simple typographical errors. Unfortunate, but they do happen. Again, we're sorry, but we really can't see that the substance of either story was significantlyaffected.
So now, in order to paint that picture of life in this community, and to be completely accurate in that representation, we have painstakingly transcribed, verbatim, Councilman Cullars' remarks against The New-Reporter which he delivered at the Council meeting. It is printed below (Well, that's not completely accurate - it's kind of over to the left and down a little from right here.)
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