What’s going on at the Star-Gazette?
It is well-known that the Elmira Star-Gazette is a Republican paper. That said, their coverage of the 2006 Congressional races was, in my opinion, generally fair and thorough.
But now something strange seems to be going on. Over the past week, they’ve published two rather vitriolic anti-Massa letters, which you can see here and here (the links may expire soon so here’s the html files here and here). One of these letters makes reference to a letter to the editor by Massa that appeared in the paper on November 15. The author writes:
The Nov. 15 letter to the editor from Eric Massa, obstinately refusing to apologize for his part in the smearing of Rush Limbaugh, was a disgrace.
However, an archives search of the Star-Gazette for “Massa” (hmtl screenshot here in case they change it) or “Limbaugh” (html screenshot here) turns up no entries for November 15. And it’s not because Massa’s letter is older — the letter Massa was replying to, dated November 7 shows up on the archives search here (here it is if the link disappears later).
Did they delete Massa’s letter from the archive? If so, why? I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist but this strikes me as very strange, especially in combination with the two recent over-the-top anti-Massa letters.
I hope I’m wrong here. It would be disppointing to know that one of the area’s papers had given up all pretense of journalistic integrity. I realize these archives searches can be complicated, but this does seem genuinely suspicious.
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Ummm - the article you mention is here:
http://www.stargazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071115/OPINION02/711150324