In keeping with the spirit of interviewing other journalists and experts for my blog, I contacted Patrick Dougherty, Senior Vice President and Editor of the Anchorage Daily News.
I invited him to have an email “sit down” to discuss this story that will not die. I wanted to further the story that his newspaper was working on two years ago that prompted the testy email exchange between him and Mrs. Palin about why the theories on Trig Palin’s birth would not go away. I saw this as an opportunity to explain how and why newspapers might view, and treat, information differently from bloggers.
Mr. Dougherty graciously declined my invitation. He said that the story of persistent rumors does not interest him any more than President Obama’s birth certificate conspiracy. I pressed the point that his paper was closer to the Palin story due to his earlier efforts to lay it to rest. And of course due the Anchorage Daily News’ geographical proximity and role as the paper of record for Alaska and its government.
Still, he declined my offer. Our emails have been pleasant and polite. And I accepted his answer.
Don't despair, Laura WAS able to get at least one answer out of Dougherty, and put to rest a myth that I for one thought was a cold hard fact, as well as getting some rather interesting information from Dougherty's blog page.
So go ahead and click the link at the top to read the entire post, and learn a little something new about the brief moment in history when the Anchorage Daily News actually tried to do their job.
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