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Post flubs coverage of civil rights initiative

Saturday, April 28 at 12:01 AM

John S. Rosenberg of Crozet, Va., writes:
As someone whose counsel was sought by the drafters of the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, I read <i>The Denver Post news story about its launch, “Race, sex emphasis in Colo. targeted,” with both amusement and concern.
Amusement, at Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education Executive Director David Longanecker’s hilarious and totally off-the-wall assertion that a measure barring discrimination against or preferential treatment of any individual or group “on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin” would somehow bar preferential treatment of athletes.
If the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education offers courses in remedial reading to its staff, Longanecker should enroll immediately.
Concern, because the Post’s reporter either misunderstood or misquoted (or both) CCRI Executive Director Valery Pech Orr’s response to Longanecker’s misreading.
Orr knows that CCRI would have no effect whatsoever on favorable treatment of athletes (or oboe players, for that matter) since it bars only discrimination based on race, sex, ethnicity or national origin.
Since informed debate is undermined by the sort of misinformation contained in this article, I hope the Post’s coverage of this important issue improves.

READER COMMENTS

Who reads the Post anyway? Except when we get stuck with the Saturday and Sunday garbage wrapper printings on subscriptions to the News, that is?

Posted by Old Grouch on April 28, 2007 06:53 AM

Yep, more spin. Longaneckers epitomizes the Marxist/leftist grasping at straws(deception) and is obviously not a freethinker but more of a brainwashed puppet of the radical left. The Denver Post is complicit.

Posted by Ben on April 28, 2007 01:44 PM