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July 31, 2005
La Corrección Política
I think of this every time I see the way my town newspaper, The Chapel Hill News, covers the Latino community.
Today's example: There are huge problems at El Centro Latino, a community resource center for Latino immigrants. This past week, the Centro's five main financial supporters (Orange County, the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and two private granting organizations) sent a public letter to the Centro, asking for a meeting to voice concerns about the Centro's viability.
What are the problems? Well, let's see: Untrained staff. Grant moneys applied to unauthorized purposes. Inadequate record-keeping. High staff turnover. Budget problems. Excessive overhead, necessitating an emergency move to downsized quarters. And a director who (surprise!) "announced last week [the week that the funders delivered their letter] that she would be leaving the organization in the fall."
And what's the headline on the The Chapel Hill News's story?
"El Centro Planning Big Move."
Now that's what I call tough investigative reporting.
Posted by Eric at July 31, 2005 11:06 AM
Comments
um.... "the political correction"?
Posted by: jenny at July 31, 2005 8:32 PM
"Correccion" can also mean politeness or courtesy.
Posted by: Eric at August 1, 2005 6:32 AM
Now Eric,
It's Chapel Hill... everybody make nice-nice.
Posted by: John A at August 1, 2005 9:19 AM
Now Orange Politics - scions of community leadership - have taken your words and weighed in on the El Centro situation with a middle-of-the-road "bonne chance"?
Talk about yer wet handshakes...
Posted by: John A at August 1, 2005 3:54 PM
"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."
--George Orwell
Posted by: David Marshall at August 2, 2005 7:06 PM