What's your opinion about the Daily Press's downplaying of the news that Fort Monroe has been listed as "most endangered"?

 

 

Submitted to the Daily Press's "Feedback" on Friday, May 25, 2007:

I respectfully protest the Daily Press's handling -- I myself would say "burying" -- of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities' listing of Fort Monroe as one of Virginia's eleven most endangered historic places. You reported it in a brief blurb on page 3 of the local section. It's your newspaper and your call, but I believe that in an open, impartial civic forum, you could not justify to fellow citizens your scanting of this important news.

Steve Corneliussen, Poquoson

 

Appearing in the Feedback column the next day:

Steve C., Poquoson: I respectfully protest the Daily Press's handling - I would say "burying" - of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities' listing of Fort Monroe as one of Virginia's 11 most endangered historic places. You reported it in a brief blurb on page 3 of the Local section. [[The newspaper omitted the third sentence here.]]

Editor: We reported on the front page just a couple of months ago that a D.C.-based Civil War preservation group put Fort Monroe on its endangered list. This seemed like an echo of that story - certainly worth being in the paper, but not shouting news, except to advocates who see it as buttressing their cause.

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