If you're looking for definitive information about a possible ASU campus in Payson, you'll want to read a story in today's (June 29) Arizona Republic.
Headlined "ASU will consider Payson campus," it is located on the front page of the Valley & State section. Best of all, it is a four-source story, including a comment from an ASU official. Most local stories on the subject are single source stories which provide only one vantage point.
To read the article, click on news.azcentral.com. And to subscribe to the Republic, call 1-800-332-6733. It's the best newspaper value and the best reporting in the Rim Country.
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4 comments:
Heah, Jim, that would be great for Payson. - John and Margaret Ross
Because the Arizona Republic published it and had more sources, it's now definitive?
There was nothing new or different than the Roundup story.
Now why don't you blast the Republic for being so slow to publish. After all, it's already really old news.
To your first question, the answer is YES. It you document it, it is more definitive.
To your second comment, there was something very different. The Republic reporter got off her butt and made a couple of phone calls - one to ASU.
And to your last question (the one without a question mark), I ask you if it's more important to get there first or to be thorough? You also have to remember that a college in Payson is not a real blockbuster story in Phoenix.
Sorry, you will never convince me that we have a real, honest newspaper in this town anymore - not without a change of ownership and a change of leadership. Not likely.
In this journalist's not-so-humble opinion, their last real editor was Jerry Thebado.
Though I moved from Payson some years ago I continue to follow this story to see how the town of Payson will screw it up. I still remember the damage that was done in the EAC/GCC debacle. A debacle caused by the greed of a few long time locals who would be damned before they would let the public benefit from something without them getting their skim. An ASU campus could revive Payson, making it a contemporary town; one where residents could be proud of. It could shed the reputation that it has for being backwoods and ignorant.
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