A Matter of Pride

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May 23, 2005

A Matter of Pride

We wish that journalists would report accurately and post corrections to misstated facts promptly and visibly, but some corrections are arguably more important than others.

To wit, a Clarksville (er, Cumberland Furnace) man felt so strongly about his name being similar to one in a Leaf-Chronicle story that he had the paper publish a clarification on the following day that specifically named himself as NOT being the subject of the report.

I'm sure there are additional "David Sheltons" in the Montgomery County area (a quick White Pages search got me a few dozen in Tennessee, but I couldn't narrow to the Clarksville area), but only one of them was so haunted by the possibility of being mis-identified with this story that he took this step.

I wonder why the clarification didn't simply include the middle initial and residence of the correctly-identified Shelton and leave it at that. What positive impact is there from naming only one other "David Shelton" whom it was not?

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