All apologies

As you may know, I’m a sucker for media minutiae, especially feuds where about 3 people keep the discussion in the forefront because they write and talk about nothing else. They’re usually great.

If that’s the case, then the feud at the Chestnut Hill Local is the most boring media feud ever, because I just can’t get into this. The story (abridged) is this: The Local is published by the Chestnut Hill Civic Association. A top editor wanted to run a cartoon critical of the CHCA, and either resigned or was asked to leave. Every issue of the paper has covered the CHCA/Local “feud” and recent board meetings and I just can’t read two sentences of any of those articles without falling asleep.

A letter from the editor on Thursday’s editorial page, though, caught my attention:

One of the best things about being older and wiser is the ability to honestly say these three little phrases:

I don’t know.

I was wrong.

I am sorry.

As interim editor of the Chestnut Hill Local, I made a mistake…

Sweet! What did she do? Run a fake story? Slander someone? Kill an intern?

As interim editor of the Chestnut Hill Local, I made a mistake by not noting that the recent article from Maxine Dornemann and Chris Kemezis was, indeed, an opinion piece. Perhaps I was so busy dodging all of the other “junk” that has been thrown my way since I began working at the Local that I welcomed an opposing point of view. Regardless of the circumstance, I erred. The proverbial buck stops at my desk and I was wrong. I am sorry.

She didn’t correctly mark a piece as an opinion piece? That’s it? Something that could have been readily noticed by anyone who read it and saw opinions? Oh, Jesus, nevermind.

Forward movement [Chestnut Hill Local]
Squabbling over the soul of the Local [Inky]