Letters: Photo choice for forum was not ‘independent’
By Karen E. Carey
Posted 10/18/20
In your recent article, “Candidates square off at election forum” in the Oct. 12 Surprise Independent, your choice of accompanying photos was not “independent.”
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2022 Election
Letters: Photo choice for forum was not ‘independent’
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By Karen E. Carey
In your recent article, “Candidates square off at election forum” in the Oct. 12 Surprise Independent, your choice of accompanying photos was not “independent.”
In the front page photo, Dawn Densmore’s name was hardly legible, and you chose to use a photo of Ms. Jennifer Drake looking away.
But the most egregious photo was the one on page 10, where you showed only candidates Coniam and Mollica and the accompanying verbiage under the photo was: “Two of the four Dysart Unified School District Governing Board candidates will be elected Nov. 8.”
We moved here from Washington two years ago and were delighted when a neighbor would drop off the Surprise Independent on our door each Wednesday.
But all through 2020 and 2021 and on to the present, we discovered this newspaper was not so “independent” or “nonpartisan” and chose to print only what they wanted, and to leave out what they didn’t want the community to know.
