Last night, the Argus Leader posted a big opinion piece article on their website from Dan Ahlers, where he goes on about cuts that President Trump would be making to SNAP, and talks about his time as a State Legislator..
But, the powers that be at the Argus Leader seem to be leaving a particular point of information out. Such as that DAN AHLERS IS A DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR US SENATE.
The state’s largest newspaper skipped the fact that a columnist being critical of the president is a partisan candidate running for the highest federal office that the state has? Amazing. They’ve conveniently and completely skipped over that part, so it’s as if he’s merely a representative of the Dell Rapid Chamber going after the President, and is somehow not the representative of his political affiliation …which he is.
Apparently the Argus’ editors missed this one while they were busy slobbering all over themselves on why people should pay for the newspaper. I guess they’re too busy making lists to enhance their sense of self-worth than to pay attention to minor details.
we’re sure that they regret the error
Hi all –
Cory Myers from the Argus here. This was a mistake by our Dell Rapids weekly paper, and has been removed from the website. I had already told Dan Ahlers we wouldn’t be running his letter due to his being a candidate for office. It slipped through the cracks of our weekly pubs, and the digital versions of those stories run through our same website.
An honest mistake, if not a slobbering one.
– Cory
Knowing that it filtered in from a different source certainly casts it in a slightly different light. Although, the Dell Rapids paper really should not have made the mistake in the first place.
I don’t think it would have happened when it was locally owned be Jim Wilber.
It will be interesting to see if Ahlers or Clara Hart have raise any money at all during this quarter which is about to end
I appreciate the admission and correction.
Good on Cory for taking ownership of this glaring “error.”
However, as leader of the news division he should have communicated with the community weeklies the decision to not run the OPED from a political candidate. The cracks should have been sealed before this was allowed to fall through.