Editorial: No property line drawn for news

Recently, a reader suggested we should just print news about Petersburg in this newspaper. He was concerned about coverage of a court case that was published in both the Petersburg Pilot and the Wrangell Sentinel. Both newspapers printed several reports of the incident as charges were filed and the case moved through the judicial system.

The writer suggested that we participated in mudslinging. We printed the public record that came from prosecutors and the court system. Both newspapers print the court news regularly. We never considered those reports mudslinging.

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