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January 31, 2006

Ours vs. Theirs

OURS:

Connecticut Post, Jan. 27, 2006
"New trial frees innocent man"
By Daniel Tepfer
Staff writer
___BRIDGEPORT -- For more than five years Alfredo Vargas sat in a prison cell, professing his innocence to accusations he molested a 4-year-old girl.
___On Thursday, a Superior Court jury in Vargas' second trial believed the 65-year-old synagogue caretaker and found him not guilty of first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor. They deliberated less than two hours.

THEIRS:

The New York Times, Jan. 29, 2006
"Penniless Man Wins Allies and Acquittal"
By Peter Applebome
___Sometimes, amid its florid theatrics and Dickensian arcana, the legal system dispenses justice. Sometimes it dispenses something else. And sometimes it does both to the same person.
___Consider what happened to Alfredo Vargas.

Make what you want of it. I'll refrain from comment. --Ed

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January 5, 2006

Hate the media?

One of the 'blogs I check regularly is Arianna Huffington's Huffington Post. On Wednesday, following the mining tragedy in West Virginia -- and the whiplash of hope and tragedy it generated -- she led her blog with a posting, "Why Do People Hate the Media?"

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December 7, 2005

The public trust

I’m glad I’m not a telemarketer, and not just because I wouldn’t like the weather in Bombay.

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November 28, 2005

Helping a student

I teach a course in news editing (big stretch) at Southern Connecticut State University. A student of mine went on to complete an internship here at the Connecticut Post. This week she contacted me asking for insight for a paper. The questions made me think pretty deeply about what we do as journalists.

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