
{"id":50,"date":"2007-03-29T09:16:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T17:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/03\/29\/letters-to-the-editor-march-28\/"},"modified":"2007-03-29T09:17:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T17:17:48","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-march-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/03\/29\/letters-to-the-editor-march-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor &#8211; March 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>True to Community<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The best compliment  I can give to The Carrboro Citizen, for its first issue, is that it is truly \u00e2\u20ac\u0153community.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In an age of increasing media fragmentation of local interest, The Citizen shows that it intends to cover what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s significant for everybody in its community. I have lived in Chapel Hill all my life, edited and published a predecessor semi-weekly in Carrboro for five years (1954-59) and believe I was dedicated to this same mission. I am confident you will be even more successful and fulfill your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153community\u00e2\u20ac\u009d mission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roland Giduz<\/strong><br \/>\nChapel Hill<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parts of story were fabricated<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The story in the March 7 Carrboro Commons headlined \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Patrolling in the Passenger Seat,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Nick Sotolongo, detailing a ride-along with Carrboro Police Officer Paul Reinas, contained some story elements that were fabricated. Academic disciplinary action has been taken, and the Commons apologizes to Officer Reinas, the Carrboro Police Department, the readers of the Commons, as well as to the readers of The Carrboro Citizen, which reprinted the story in its March 21 inaugural edition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jock Lauterer<\/strong><br \/>\nFaculty Adviser<br \/>\nThe Carrboro Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True to Community The best compliment I can give to The Carrboro Citizen, for its first issue, is that it is truly \u00e2\u20ac\u0153community.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In an age of increasing media fragmentation of local interest, The Citizen shows that it intends to cover what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s significant for everybody in its community. I have lived in Chapel Hill all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}