[Vision2020] The Latah Eagle Gets It Right

[Art Deco]

[Reposted, since it apparently got lost yesterday.]

Congratulations to The Latah Eagle.  

In the Thursday, December, 15 edition, available at news stands, etc, there is a well written front page article on the HIV problem currently sitting very high on our local horizon.  In this article, new facts are presented that have not appeared in the local paper or the LMT, and there are excerpts from an actual interview with Kanay Mubita, the defendant.

The Eagle recognizes the seriousness of the possible trees of infection and resulting gruesome consequences that may result from the alleged actions of the defendant.  Thank you Kai and LJ for the story and the front page placement.

Also, in today's Spokesman Review an article appears on the front page of the Regional Section.

I ask again:  Where the fuck is the Daily News?

Mubita was arrested on December 7, 8 days ago.  The Daily News could have had a front page story alerting many of the students (some who are now graduated and gone, not to return) and other residents who may be now branches on the tree of infection.  Those notified could decide to restrain from unprotected sexual relations until they are tested now and again in six months time.  Thus, a timely article on the front page of the Daily News may have alerted at least some enough to prevent further infection between now and the time they finally hear about the problem.  Thanks in part to the inexcusable laxity of the Daily News, new infections may now occur that may not have occurred had the Daily News acted responsibly.

At WinCo today I asked the checker who is a student at UI and a very bright young lady, what the buzz was on campus about this incident.  She hadn't even heard of it.  This is a horrific lapse by the local media, the Eagle excepted.

At the very least there needs to be a change of the managing editorship at the Daily News!  How could not the managing editor, the editorial editor, the news editor, and the publisher fail to recognize the significance of this story, the need for fast dissemination of accurate, relevant information, and its responsibility to the community?  Do they have their collective craniums so deeply embedded in the termini of each others' alimentary canals that they are unable to think independently at all?

Wayne A. Fox
1009 Karen Lane
PO Box 9421
Moscow, ID  83843

(208) 882-7975
waf at moscow.com
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