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Submitted by elida987 on Fri, 2008-08-08 16:01.
There was a headline on the Gazette's opening page about Robert Smalls school being closed today, but it seems to have been removed.
Was this an error or a cover-up?
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There was no electricity or phone service. Neither could the students wash their hands in the restrooms due to the sinks being on sensors. There was quite a bit of damage done in the yard with trees down and a power pole.
Don't be so suspicious; it's no cover-up! Go to the District website and you'll see it.
There was no electricity or phone service. Neither could the students wash their hands in the restrooms due to the sinks being on sensors. There was quite a bit of damage done in the yard with trees down and a power pole.
Don't be so suspicious; it's no cover-up! Go to the District website and you'll see it.
Thanks! That makes sense, but I wondered why the Gazette put on the headline then removed it. That follows on the heel of yesterday's letter to the editor about the Marines, and the "Duty and Honor" from yesterday seemed to have been deleted too.
It kind of gives me the idea we are being censored a bit too much.
I imagine that they removed it because they figured most parents had found out.
... the letter to the editor you referenced is still on the site and always has been. Frankly, your charges of a "cover-up" are ridiculous. What in the world would we be covering up?
... the letter to the editor you referenced is still on the site and always has been. Frankly, your charges of a "cover-up" are ridiculous. What in the world would we be covering up?
Sorry, I must have been misunderstood. Yes, the "Letter to the Editor" was online, that's how I read it. What it referred to in the "Duty and Honor" segment from yesterday's paper was what I could not find, the whole Thursday segment was not on the online Gazette. No matter though, I bought the paper yesterday and can read that segment and probably will.
I should have used the word censored rather than cover-up.
This story was not a Gazette staff-written story, which is why you didn't see it online. All Gazette-written stories are on the site. Except for the Associated Press, stories from supplemetal wires, including this story, are not. It has always been this way.
Nothing was censored. Nothing.
Oh, man. I need a day off.
LOL! I bet you enjoyed your time in California this summer (It was California, right?)!!
Lord knows we don't want parents to know at the end of the day that their kids' school was closed...
C'mon.
When a local story runs its course on the home page, it ends up in the archives. If it's a developing story (which appears at the top as developing), that means it gets rolled — or developed — into a new, complete story (in this case, the school closing will be mentioned in a story that follows today's severe weather story, which will be published shortly). AP stories are part of an AP feed, such was the Marines story. They come and go because we don't own them.
The letter to the editor is still there.
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i dropted my daughter off at school this morning and one of the teachers tried to stop me i did not know she was trying to stop me and my daughter said dad i think she is trying to talk to you. so i stoped and she said they had no power and were waiting on an adminastrator to make a decision about school we will let her call you if no school. so i got a call we are having school. wow good have a good day. 20 minuts later she called well no school lol. no electricity no phnone and so on but hey the busses were there and took them home. so now i guss i am going to have to call the school to find out if they realy had or did not have school. lol. (just kidding) and if there is anyone out there that is not so sure MR. Passante was kidding about not letting you know that the school was closed keep on reading the star and the inquier and you will get the message. lol have a good day