Follow-Up

Submitted by editorkevin on 4 March 2010 - 10:48pm

I guess this site has some wide reach. The other day I took issue with some media outlets in western Kentucky for their sensationalistic treatment of essentially something that was a non-story. It was about a "hit and run" buggy accident. I heard from Keith Todd, the public information officer for the state of Kentucky's Transportation Cabinet, tonight giving us a little bit more background about how the news story came about:

I wrote the news release that started all the hoopla over the Amish buggy hit and run. I also happen to have several Amish friends. I knew as I was writing it that some folks were going to have way too much fun with it. However, I also knew that if I didn't write it as factually as possible that it would get blown out of proportion even worse. When I started work on it the buggy driver was still missing. Fortunately, just as I was getting ready to send it out I got the call that he had retured to clear things up. Just wanted to provide some persepective on your comment.

That was nice of Keith to share the info with us. My quarrel was never with him, it was with the media outlets that knew full well it was not a "hit and run" in the classic sense but still couldn't resist running the inaccurate headline. Thanks for sharing with us, Keith!

Re: Follow-Up

Submitted by suzieque on 5 March 2010 - 3:36pm.

i would certainly enjoy giving mr. walk a piece of my mind...in the professional sense of course. he needs to hear from some of the people who surf the internet. the amish and mennonites are a proud people who try to live in our world. this is hard to do, even for us 'english'. you, mr. walk, are messing with the religious freedoms of a people. our country was FOUNDED on religious freedom/you are also messing with the constitution of our great nation. you sir, are a BIGOT.