>> Recently, Colorado state Republican Senator Ray Scott accused the local newspaper, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, of reporting fake news.
Scott took issue with an editorial in the paper calling out the Senator for cancelling a hearing on a state bill. The Senator responded to the editorial by tweeting that the Daily Sentinel publishes fake news.
The accusation has not sat well with the publisher of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Jay Seaton. He intends to sue the Senator and tells The Current's Laura Lynch about the damage this allegation has caused to the paper.
"The greatest asset of any newspaper or any news source is its credibility," says Seaton.
"I know that we've lost subscribers in response to that tweet. Now since then ... the response to the push back on that tweet has been quite positive. But the tweet itself did, I know, cause us real damage." << -- The Current
Scott took issue with an editorial in the paper calling out the Senator for cancelling a hearing on a state bill. The Senator responded to the editorial by tweeting that the Daily Sentinel publishes fake news.
The accusation has not sat well with the publisher of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Jay Seaton. He intends to sue the Senator and tells The Current's Laura Lynch about the damage this allegation has caused to the paper.
"The greatest asset of any newspaper or any news source is its credibility," says Seaton.
"I know that we've lost subscribers in response to that tweet. Now since then ... the response to the push back on that tweet has been quite positive. But the tweet itself did, I know, cause us real damage." << -- The Current
Good for the Daily Sentinel. This Naziesque assault on discourse needs to be called out for what it is.