HAVRE DAILY NEWS DEFENDS AND DISPELS

Once again our blog is center billing with the Havre Daily News in tonight’s paper with the latest coming from Managing Editor John Kelleher. While we appreciate the free press Mr. Kelleher, I think you and Councilman Veis have unfortunately missed this big picture here, this is not about the Havre Daily Corrector. The point of all this is what is happening in our community on a daily basis is not getting out to the public. You need to ask yourself what we do, are we asking the tough questions? Are we asking the right people? We are looking for investigative journalism on these issues, not just reporting what happens at meetings and reprints of stories off the wires. Why not delve into these issues a bit? Our comment numbers show one thing if nothing else, our readers and yours too I would bet, are craving local news.

Which brings us to why we exist in the first place. We created this blog provide an alternative to the Havre Daily News and to correct misstatements and untruths spewed by not only the HDN, but our public officials as well. As we have said previously we do not hide our opinions here nor do we edit our stories for “news worthiness” or refuse to post for those who write to us or give us tips with whom we disagree. Actually we enjoy getting critical comments and would encourage differing viewpoints on issues of concern from the folks and would ask that you send us your story ideas, tips or editorials to our e-mail address: havredailycorrector@bresnan.net. We promise to post them as we receive them and in keeping with our commitment to our community you can remain anonymous if you wish and we can publish under your handle.

This brings us to our final comment and that is our anonymity. Let’s face it, we are not journalists and we don’t claim to be. We, and I do mean we as there are several of us involved in this “operation,” are interested and active community members who are fed up with the status quo and vowed to try our best to encourage thought and discussion and hopefully change. The reason we remain anonymous is that it doesn’t really matter who we are, what matters is what happens in this community and what the subjects of many of our posts are up to. So much like your “Our Viewpoint” column which remains unsigned, we reserve the right to simply be collective bloggers connected by a common goal and sign our views as such. Additionally we extend this courtesy to our contributors because let’s face it, in a community our size where everyone knows just about everybody, sometimes comments can be used against folks, which is unfortunate. That’s why we focus on the topic at hand and the point the writer makes as opposed to the “who” element.

So once again, thanks HDN, we look forward to your response and yes we do agree on one thing, we are definitely not connected!