By Michael Miner
Fine. It’s her right. She’s an American. But Grimm didn’t stop there. She took the dangerous step of burnishing her argument by twice quoting from the pages of the Herald-News.
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A newspaper article is generally assumed to be truthful not only in its broad sweep but in the particulars, paragraph by paragraph. When a paragraph is lifted from a story and set into a new context new truths may or may not be revealed, but the paragraph is not supposed to become false. The day of the public meeting, the Herald-News had quoted tollway press secretary David Loveday on the subject of possible tollway corridors the tollway authority was designating. “We’re not going to tell people they can’t put an addition on their house, or they can’t put a new roof on,” Loveday said. “What the corridor does is protects somebody in the future that may want to build a new house there so we don’t have to take it down later.”
Grimm didn’t misquote the Herald-News quoting Loveday. What she did do was plaster these comments with SCAT’s skepticism. “Dave, you didn’t tell the whole story,” she said at the meeting. “What about protecting the property and home owners in the corridor from the beginning? How are you protecting the home owners now living next to I-355 from the noise, air and soil pollution they now must endure? Who are you protecting, really?”
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“It was the first night of the Blues Fest,” he said, “and at the very end the cops were doing a sweep, saying, ‘Everybody out of the park.’ They were going from east to west.” But at the western edge of the park, momentarily unnoticed by the police, a Channel Nine truck was parked. And up on the roof of the truck, accompanied by a cameraman and bathed in light, Dina Bair was delivering her wrap.
More precisely, says McNulty, for crashing the event.
