DVT and Sibby are starting to get the impression that a story written about blogs in South Dakota for the Argus Leader by Jennifer Sanderson may have been spiked or is undergoing a massive overhaul by the AL's editors.
On Friday, July 30, (over a week ago) I sat with fellow bloggers Sibby and Q at the Black Sheep Coffee Shop in Sioux Falls to be interviewed by Jennifer Sanderson. Earlier in the week, Jen had interviewed Professor Jon Lauck of DVT as well as Ryne McClaren. The interview with Sibby, Q, and I lasted around two hours, and much of the discussion centered around criticism of the Argus Leader. Near the conclusion of the interview, we were told that the story would probably be published in the middle of the following week. I learned on Wednesday that the story was being given its final reading. It is now Saturday, and the story has still not been published.
Jennifer Sanderson and I knew each other when we were undergraduates at The University of South Dakota. Jen is a great person, and I think she is doing a great job at the Argus Leader, particularly in her new beat covering political advertisements in this high profile political year in South Dakota. I think she is a thorough reporter, and in observing her work, I believe she is making a determined effort to be objective. Jen is not the problem.
During the interview, I distinctly recall Jen commenting that "the Argus certainly is strong enough and its people have enough faith in their work to show another point of view." If this story on the Dakota Blog Alliance has been spiked (and I emphatically caution readers that there is still a high degree of uncertainty about whether that's the case), I think it would speak volumes about the strength and faith the editors of the AL have in their work.
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