Lawmaker does not understand first amendment

[Peter_Morris]

@Inner_Stickler

Please, for the love of god and apple pie, take 30 seconds to copy and paste the part of her article you claim she invented out of whole cloth.

Councilman Kirby Delauter, who is also a former commissioner, has joined Shreve in concern over parking for elected officials. *

[running_coach]

@Peter_Morris

“she contacted me by phone yesterday, I did not return her call”

That was after the so-called hit piece was published.

[Peter_Morris]

Your point being?

[fachverwirrt]

@Peter_Morris

Councilman Kirby Delauter, who is also a former commissioner, has joined Shreve in concern over parking for elected officials. *

It is impossible, I suppose, that she got that information by talking to Shreve.

[muldoonthief]

@fachverwirrt

It is impossible, I suppose, that she got that information by talking to Shreve.

Or she inferred it based on information she got from Gardner:

“Delauter, R-District 5, has asked Gardner to take parking spaces away from her government affairs liaison and her chief administrative officer and designate them for the council.”

[Drunky_Smurf]

@Peter_Morris

Your point being?

Still waiting on that cite that she twisted and lied.

[Calatin]

@Peter_Morris

“she contacted me by phone yesterday, I did not return her call”

So, any time an official says “No comment” when asked a question by a reporter, they are guilty of harassment?

[Slash1972]

@fachverwirrt

It is impossible, I suppose, that she got that information by talking to Shreve.

Would it have been better reporting to say “According to Shreve, Councilman Kirby Delauter, a former commissioner, has joined Shreve in concern over parking for elected officials” ?

[Peter_Morris]

@fachverwirrt

It is impossible, I suppose, that she got that information by talking to Shreve.

A friend of a friend has told me that *you *have some pretty peculiar beliefs.

Would you like me to list them?

Doesn’t matter if you say no. I’ve heard your opinions from someone else, and that’s good enough.

[Peter_Morris]

@Drunky_Smurf

Still waiting on that cite that she twisted and lied.

Several instances given repeatedly.

[Calatin]

@Peter_Morris

A friend of a friend has told me that *you *have some pretty peculiar beliefs.

Would you like me to list them?

Doesn’t matter if you say no. I’ve heard your opinions from someone else, and that’s good enough.

Essentially, in your situation, the reporter can’t win. She has a story to report. She has second-hand information, and the focus of the story won’t respond to questions.

What should she do?

Also, you *do *know that the standard for actionable defamation is higher for public figures, don’t you? If she’s quoting an outside party and reporting the information as such in her story, it’s hard to have a claim against her.

[Peter_Morris]

@Slash1972

Would it have been better reporting to say “According to Shreve, Councilman Kirby Delauter, a former commissioner, has joined Shreve in concern over parking for elected officials” ?

Did Shreve say that?

cite?

[Inner_Stickler]

@Peter_Morris

Councilman Kirby Delauter, who is also a former commissioner, has joined Shreve in concern over parking for elected officials. *

So then, as guizot says, you have evidence he is not concerned over parking for elected officials?

[fachverwirrt]

@Peter_Morris

A friend of a friend has told me that *you *have some pretty peculiar beliefs.

Would you like me to list them?

Doesn’t matter if you say no. I’ve heard your opinions from someone else, and that’s good enough.

Besides the fact that it’s a terrible analogy, the idea that she got secondhand information that she tried to confirm with Delauter is a far cry from your assertion that after he refused to talk to her, she simply made things up.

[running_coach]

@Peter_Morris

Did Shreve say that?

cite?

That’s called an example of an alternate written line.

It was not claimed to be an actual quote.

[Peter_Morris]

@Calatin

Essentially, in your situation, the reporter can’t win. She has a story to report. She has second-hand information, and the focus of the story won’t respond to questions.

What should she do?

1. the reporter got herself into the situation. He declined to speak to her because of her own prior behaviour.

2. he wasn’t the focus of the story. There was no need to mention him at all

3. An ethical journalist could have used the phrase “declined to comment”

[Slash1972]

@running_coach

That’s called an example of an alternate written line.

It was not claimed to be an actual quote.

Thanks! Yes, I was not quoting anyone, I was just asking if that would have been a better sentence, since it clearly shows where the reporter got the stance of Delauter

[Fallen]

Peter, you might want to stop digging and just admit you haven’t actually read up on the story. At any rate, your posts don’t speak to facts and otherwise don’t make sense (in this particular post, as to the notion that the reporter should’ve written “declined to comment”).

[Peter_Morris]

@fachverwirrt

Besides the fact that it’s a terrible analogy, the idea that she got secondhand information that she tried to confirm with Delauter is a far cry from your assertion that after he refused to talk to her, she simply made things up.

1. It isn’t an analogy, it is the exact same thing. It is, in both cases, quoting somebody’s opinion after hearing it from somebody else.

2. Do have any actual evidence that this happened at all? Are you just guessing that she heard it from somebody else, or can you provide a cite?

[running_coach]

@Peter_Morris

2. Do have any actual evidence that this happened at all? Are you just guessing that she heard it from somebody else, or can you provide a cite?

You mean the same way you’ve been providing evidence of what you claim?