............in KBDI.

The author is an idiot, of course.

Just sent my email! Ostracized?

The Denver Post is owned by Media News Group whose big boss is William Dean Singleton.

The Denver Post website features their ethics policy and introductory text by the Editor, Greg Moore. It would be interesting to analyze Joanne's article to see how well it aligns their policy.
Here are some excerpts from
http://www.denverpost.com/ethics

What follows is The Denver Post ethics policy. It is the product of months of work by reporters and editors on the staff to develop shared guidelines and principles by which we conduct ourselves. We believe it is important to share this policy with the public, so that you better understand the standards we live by. At the end of the day we want to be able to say we did our jobs honestly and fairly and are beholden to no one in the process. I know you will do your part to hold us accountable.

Greg Moore
Editor

DENVER POST ETHICS POLICY

Preamble

As journalists, we seek the truth and strive to present a responsible and fair glimpse of the world. The newspaper is our powerful vehicle, and we endeavor to face the public with respect and candor.

Our power must be used responsibly. Our notebooks and cameras are tickets into people's lives, sacred worlds and complex institutions.

Our job is to intensely scrutinize the activities of others as watchdogs that challenge authority and give voice to the voiceless. Our own actions should withstand equally intense scrutiny. We should be transparent.

Transparency is won through accuracy, compassion, intellectual honesty and an introspective mission to convey complete, contextual views of our world. When we are transparent, we conduct our professional lives as if all our colleagues and our readers are watching over our shoulders.

Our goal is to begin and end each day with a primary obligation to the public's right to know.

NEWS GATHERING: ACCURACY, FAIRNESS AND SOURCING

Nailing our stories can be as simple as phoning three people - or as grueling as spending months chiseling away the nonessential, the rumor, the red herrings.

Our aim is to deliver the facts with precision and context.

We believe in getting not only both sides, but "all" sides.

The best stories are multi-sourced. Facts are triple-checked. Issues are balanced with diverse views and sources.

They are, simply, as complete as possible.

Pre-publication Review

Stories should not be shown to sources or people outside the newsroom prior to publication.

However, it is sometimes acceptable to allow a source to review portions of stories for purposes of accuracy. For example, an engineer might be sought to review a technically descriptive passage in an environmental story that details how sewer piping allows toxic chemicals to flow into public waters.

Such exceptions should be approved beforehand by the Managing Editor/News.

Dear Joanne Ostrow:

Your recent article on KBDI's airing of documentaries critical of the government's accounts of 9/11 is not only an example of irresponsible journalism, but of propaganda.

In your article you refuse to meaningfully address any of the subject matter of the documentaries on 9/11 shown by KBDI. Perhaps it is because you sense, somewhere deep down, that you will prove unable to competently refute the claims made in these challenging and highly professional presentations? Indeed, what other reason could there be for someone who, occupying the position of journalist, ignores the stunning details laid out in these clearly sourced and carefully reasoned investigative accounts of 9/11?

I was born and raised in Colorado. My parents and family still live and farm in the state. They were among those deeply gratified by KBDI's commitment to REAL journalism, Ms. Ostrow, enough so to donate to the station. Judging from your own article, they were not alone. Had you exhibited anything other than contempt for your readership, for journalistic integrity, and for the very truth about such matters of staggering moral importance as 9/11, you might have bothered to critically address at least a few of the central claims made in these documentaries, rather than smear KBDI (and by extension the millions of people who do in fact care about these issues) with the broad if intellectually sleazy brush of invective.

Meanwhile, on the subject of the federal income tax, Ms. Ostrow, one challenge: can you please point out the law which requires individuals in the United States to pay it?

Until you prove able to actually take on the competent and accomplished professionals who appear in the 9/11 documentaries you so ignorantly deride, you will not merit the designation of journalist and will remain a propagandist. A shill, Ms. Ostrow, for forces you may well be too morally incompetent even to recognize. Additionally, in failing at your duty within our nation to act as a worthy member of the "fourth estate," you will retain the stain of 9/11 blood on your hands, which only an earnest commitment to the truth about that horrible event (whatever it turns out to be) might wash away.

If you are indeed interested in competent critical analysis of 9/11, I recommend you start by reading David Ray Griffin's detailed and meticulously reasoned books on the matter, THE NEW PEARL HARBOR and THE NEW PEARL HARBOR REVISITED, distinct volumes which should bring you up to speed on a matter you have so loathsomely and shamefully misapprehended in your asinine article.

Most sincerely,

Tom Breidenbach
Brooklyn, NY