Dickinson Coverage Update

nospam@example.com (Spud Zeppelin) — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:43:47 +0100

So the Statesman *finally* got around to mentioning Dr. Dickinson's disappearance in yesterday's edition -- peripherally in the context of the opening of his favorite play in Moscow. Intriguing that the story required them to present all of the major details of the disappearance -- since they had yet to publish any of them over the ensuing three weeks -- but managed to omit most of the usual details of a theatre opening (in fact, they barely managed to work in the title of the play!).

Appalling and Disturbing

nospam@example.com (Spud Zeppelin) — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:47:50 +0100

I've been lamenting the decline in the quality of the Statesman since the McClatchy acquisition, but this has got to be the worst example ever: Dr. John Dickinson, the sitting Moscow City Council President and retired longtime Chair of the U of I Computer Science Department, has been missing (following a presumed fall into the John Day River in Oregon) for a week and a half, and the story hasn't even received a *word* of coverage from "Idaho's #1 Website for News and Information." This is a person that literally *thousands* of people here in the Valley, and countless more throughout the state, know personally. Obviously, my heart goes out to his family and friends, many of whom I knew from my days in Moscow, and I certainly hope for his miraculous safe return, but that this story would receive so little coverage from the Statesman that I would only learn of it through an Alumni email newsletter is appalling and disturbing.

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Dickinson Coverage Update

Appalling and Disturbing