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What does it mean when you're a newspaper editor, and political candidates on both sides of the aisle are angry with you, one for printing his opponent's allegations and the other for modifying and issuing clarifications regarding them?
More often than not, it means you're doing your job.
That's what happened recently in the Edina Sun Current. In a recent issue, the local paper, which runs under the banner of the Metro-wide Sun Newspapers, a letter to the editor from Andrew Borene, DFL candidate for Senate District 41, appeared. Soon after, an email from Borene's campaign hit their mailing list, calling for volunteers and activists to contact the paper and demand that Borene's letter be re-printed in its entirety. What had happened in the interim? The paper got a call from Geoff Michel's campaign, requesting that the facts asserted in Borene's letter be examined for truthfulness. The paper then did this fact-check, and subsequently modified the online version of Borene's letter and issued a clarification. You can see both versions below.
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