September 2019.

     I continued my survey of the Bluegrass’s print journalism in late September 2019.  The Ukraine story was developing by the hour and dominated cable news.  The (Elizabethtown) News-Enterprise, a regional daily, approached the story unconventionally.  By picking up an Associated Press story by Dmytro Vlasov and presenting no other coverage, the only news its readers received was that the Ukrainian president was miffed by the release of the written record of his conversation with President CrowdStrike.  The accumulating substance of the affair wasn’t mentioned.  Welcome to the “news” in Red State America, I suppose.  To The (Elizabethtown) News-Enterprise’s credit, it printed my critique of its news judgement.

Here’s Dmytro Vlasov’s article:

Dmytro Vlasov, “Ukrainian Leader Bristles at Release of Trump Transcript,” The (Elizabethtown) News-Enterprise, 27 September 2019, A6; Associated Press, 26 September 2019 (https://subscriber.thenewsenterprise.com/node/426409/, ).  The above link leads to the e-edition of article in The (Elizabethtown) News Enterprise. Access to this is likely limited by the newspaper’s paywall.  If the paper posted an online version of this article, its search engine is unable to locate it.  The following link is to the Associated Press’s online version (https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-international-news-joe-biden-politics-6454968c0e3642b59ffbece30abeefd4).

Here’s the letter:

“Questions Selection of Ukrainian Story,” The (Elizabethtown) News-Enterprise, 7 October 2019, A6 (www.thenewsenterprise.com/opinon/letters_to_editor/letters-to-the-editor-oct/article_0ef65466-8050-5176-8371-7cb1944d53f4.html).