Comments on: Woman injured in crash when car overturns

By: Followup?

Followup? — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:17:41 +0000

I thought there was going to be an update on who was faulted in the accident once the police report was finished. There has been no such update other than the one correcting the most glaring errors above.

By: Actually

Actually — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:51:31 +0000

There’s every reason to delete comments about a case when they cannot be confirmed for the public. We don’t know you from Adam or Eve or John or Jane Doe. You could be Barny Fife posting under a pseudonym on this website, so the Enterprise was acting responsibly and complying with police protocols for reporting on an ongoing investigation. That is, take the facts that the police give you and let it be at that.

Because the online medium now allows anyone and everyone to “contribute” to reporting about events, it is incumbent upon the staff of the paper to moderate comments for both accuracy and appropriateness.

For example, I live in the house immediately adjacent to the location where Scott Heinig was injured on Picnic Day this year. I had spoken to him not one hour prior to his being injured. Knowing that any contribution I might make to reporting about the incident wouldn’t help anyone connected to him, I did not post anything online.

From your comment, it is clear that you were not in the car with Megan, nor even at the scene. Your comment is nothing but hearsay, however accurate it may eventually be proven to be.

By: Megan's roommate

Megan's roommate — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:04:55 +0000

I find it rather interesting that this original deleted comment was only restored after I publicized it.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:21:24 +0000

I second Tara’s question: “Perhaps you have a tie to one or both you’d like to disclose?”

By: ashley

ashley — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:36:25 +0000

I agree with Tara. Knowing the actual facts of the case ( after speaking to someone who was physically there) I am seriously dismayed at the faulty reporting of the enterprise and in the future will question everything I read. When they cant even get the facts such as what street each driver was on correct it leads me to question everything else reported in the paper.