Talking to JicC Regulars and Readers - 8-3-06

Sorry I didn’t get anything posted today besides this and that little "note" to N&O Editor Sill.

Travel always takes time from blogging.

Anyway, some thanks and news.

Thanks for the great comments, the links to places like talk left, Freepers, something called “Truth getting its pants on,” La Shawn Barber , Johnsville, KC Johnson and FODU among others.

Your comments and questions have helped sharpen my thinking and posts.

Example: Many of you have been asking about any liability the N&O might have for what it’s done to the lacrosse players and coaches, their families, and the community.

I been asking journalists and attorneys about that. I hope in a week or two I can say something that may shed a little light.

Another example: Reader comments and info put me on to the H-S fake story of "previously undisclosed [DNA] matches.]

I never made any contact this week with Durham City Mgr. Patrick Baker. I did get an email this afternoon from attorney Charns. He’s also not had any contact from Baker this week.

Charns and I are going to get together tomorrow so I can take another look at the public part of his CrimeStoppers file.

I want to nail down timelines regarding when the first CS poster was produced, how soon thereafter the N&O’s “vigilante” poster appeared, and just when DPD Maj. Lee Russ directed DPD Cpl. David Addison to change the first CS poster.

Russ' direction resulted in Addison producing a second, modified version of the first CS poster; which was again changed at Russ’ direction, that direction from Russ thereby leading to the production of a third version of the CS poster.

I also want to learn as much as I can regarding how the CS "wanted" poster production timelines fit with the production timelines of the N&O's "vigialnte" poster.

More on all of that over the weekend.

I heard back from Herald Sun editor Bob Ashley on my email follow-up to the post: "Duke lacrosse: A fake Herald Sun story?"

Ashley said he didn’t want to “debate news judgments” with me.

Of course, I didn’t ask Ashley about his news judgments. I asked him about the truthfulness of what he was claiming and telling readers: “previously undisclosed [DNA] matches.”

I also asked about the H-S's failure to ID Joyner and his connection to the Duke lacrosse matter.

I’ll get back to Ashley in a day or two.

I thank all of you who posted “go for it” and “here’s more info” comments here and at the Editor’s Blog re: The H-S non-story story. I hope you join in when I comment to Ashley.

And hey, if you don’t want to wait, let me be the first to say to you, “Go for it!”

I’ll post another Talking with JinC and Readers post tomorrow evening.

In the meantime, if anyone sees the fat, bald principle Durham Police investigator of the Duke lacrosse frame-up, please tell him to stop hanging out in sports bars and finish those investigative report notes he was supposed to have completed four months ago.