Pledger Column is Offensive

From 10.29.07

To the Gazette:

How would you suggest the Rock-Koshkonong Lake District respond to D.S. Pledger’s Sunday column re: Lake Koshkonong?

Granted, Pledger is just a “columnist” and I doubt a J-School graduate at that, he nonetheless occupies a position in the Gazette slightly above the rank of a “blogger.” Given that, his column leaves your readers with the impression that he should know his subject matter. Yet, Pledger’s Sunday column was so riddled with inaccuracies that he has fallen to a place below internet bloggers; to a place where thugs with spray paint litter our world with graffiti and call themselves “artists.”

Pledger littered Lake Koshkonong and then defiantly protested that he never heard of the RKLD, and besides, “I don’t subscribe to the Gazette.” So much for the Gazette’s new motto – Local Matters.

What, no Google? No searching the GazetteExtra.com archives? Isn’t Pledger obliged to a minimal amount of fact-finding research before pressing the send button; before leaning back in his creaky office chair, stroking his beard, smugly whispering to himself, “Another DS Pledger Masterpiece…?”

On this one, I certainly hope the Gazette chooses to withhold Pledger’s paycheck. But if he has already been paid, then I would like to request a response equal to the number of words Pledger wrote. And I won’t charge you extra for my words being factual.

Brian Christianson
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