It seems the headline on my last post on the Erie Yacht Club's "gift" membership to State Rep. John Hornaman should have read "Favoritism at Goerie.com," The Times-News's online edition. Kara Rhodes at the Times-News tells me the story ran in the print edition of the Times-News on Tuesday.
However, there was no sign of it in the Tuesday online edition, or thereafter, which is the only version of the Times-News I read. And in the "Stories Most Read" section of Goerie, there was no mention of the Hornaman story, even though it would certainly have been that day's most read story had it appeared in the online edition.
Nevertheless, the taint of favoritism at the Times-News still applies because the print version treated Rep. Hornman's conflict of interest, and the elitest Erie Yacht Club's obvious attempt to influence public policy in its favor with kid gloves, by minimizing their ill-conceived actions. Don't expect an outraged editorial condemning them.
I tried to retrieve the print version of the story from the newspaper's online Archives, but could only get the first few lines of the story without shelling out $2.95 to the Archives service. Many newspapers which archive their print editions online enable readers to retrieve the current week's or month's published material free of charge, only assessing a fee for earlier published articles. As usual, the Erie Times-News has taken the low road, requiring a retrieval fee after the first day of publication.
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