Saturday, July 02, 2005
Memo to: Otus the Head Cat, Fur Will Fly
Mr. Otus, it looks like you have crossed the line. This is not the first time you have gone too far and stepped over the bounds of professional journalism. Teresa Hall of Ashdown has called a halt to your silly little game. You have been warned!
One more mess up like this, Mr. Head Cat, and there will be SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES.
If you, gentle readers to this internet journal, missed the highly intelligent, well informed and most perceptive letter on the Voices page in Today's Democrat-Gazette, the full text follows here along with the accompanying note from the editors.
How long must these outrages continue?
Otus, have you no sense of decency?
Now, the letter of complaint.
A disservice was done
As the curator for the state of Arkansas for the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, or BFRO, I am appalled at the column your newspaper printed in regard to a Miller County bigfoot sighting and a witness named as Carl "Cooter" Scroggins.
The BFRO does not publish witness names and the person who submitted that report was neither named Carl "Cooter" Scroggins nor was he from Black Diamond, Ark., as the column stated. Anyone who submits a report to the BFRO may rest assured his name will not be released by the BFRO to the public for reasons demonstrated in the newspaper column.
For an impartial look at the BFRO, the Web site bfro.net is available and a much better resource than the Democrat-Gazette for information regarding the existence of an unknown species of primate here in Arkansas and across North America.
[Otus the Head CatÂ?s] column has done a disservice to the BFRO and to the readership to suggest that someone submitting a sighting to the BFRO will have his private information broadcast publicly. Witness names and addresses are kept completely confidential and out of the public view unless a witness prefers otherwise.
The column regarding the BFRO and the Miller County sighting report was not representative of the organization, but of the newspaper that printed it.
TERESA HALL
Ashdown
Editor's note: The column in question was clearly identified as a "humorous fabrication."
Lynch back, now. Dear editors, so it's OK because it's a "humorous fabrication?" Don't you know that WE ARE AT WAR. There are no jokes permitted.
One more mess up like this, Mr. Head Cat, and there will be SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES.
If you, gentle readers to this internet journal, missed the highly intelligent, well informed and most perceptive letter on the Voices page in Today's Democrat-Gazette, the full text follows here along with the accompanying note from the editors.
How long must these outrages continue?
Otus, have you no sense of decency?
Now, the letter of complaint.
A disservice was done
As the curator for the state of Arkansas for the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, or BFRO, I am appalled at the column your newspaper printed in regard to a Miller County bigfoot sighting and a witness named as Carl "Cooter" Scroggins.
The BFRO does not publish witness names and the person who submitted that report was neither named Carl "Cooter" Scroggins nor was he from Black Diamond, Ark., as the column stated. Anyone who submits a report to the BFRO may rest assured his name will not be released by the BFRO to the public for reasons demonstrated in the newspaper column.
For an impartial look at the BFRO, the Web site bfro.net is available and a much better resource than the Democrat-Gazette for information regarding the existence of an unknown species of primate here in Arkansas and across North America.
[Otus the Head CatÂ?s] column has done a disservice to the BFRO and to the readership to suggest that someone submitting a sighting to the BFRO will have his private information broadcast publicly. Witness names and addresses are kept completely confidential and out of the public view unless a witness prefers otherwise.
The column regarding the BFRO and the Miller County sighting report was not representative of the organization, but of the newspaper that printed it.
TERESA HALL
Ashdown
Editor's note: The column in question was clearly identified as a "humorous fabrication."
Lynch back, now. Dear editors, so it's OK because it's a "humorous fabrication?" Don't you know that WE ARE AT WAR. There are no jokes permitted.
