Indiana Blog Review

Mommy Star

Ruth Holladay takes a look at some 'journalistic paternalism' from the Indianapolis Star.  Others have called it racial pandering.

Arts? What Arts?

Ruth Holladay takes a look at the demise of Arts coverage in the Indianapolis Star.

The rise of citizen journalism to replace it, though, is probably extremely promising -- if the arts community is willing to meet them halfway.  (Free tickets, please!)

Be a Pal

Thomas Kemp:

The Pal-Item announced today its new online feature, My PI where us simple common folks can contribute our own stories and photos for others to view. Hey, That sound sort of like a blog, no?

Um

Update: stAllio! noticed it, too.

Coda

Ruth Holladay reports that the Indianapolis Star has purchased 17 AEDs (defibrilators)  and is offering CPR training.

I think it's natural to wonder when they were ordered.

Bookworm

Congratulations to Ellen Andersen:

I have a new book out and I'll be doing a reading and signing this Saturday at OutWord Bound Books, starting at 2pm. Out of the Closets and into the Courts explores the promise and limits of litigation as a tactic for advancing gay rights . . .

Out of the Closets is an academic book with a gazillion footnotes, but I wrote it to be accessible to the general public and I'm really pleased that OutWord Bound is supporting it.

Not All the News Fit on Print

Mike Kole cries foul over the Indianapolis Star's "Voters Guide."

Advance Indiana calls Nuvo's election coverage disappointing.

He also notes candidates who struggle to get noticed and how blogs can expand their reach.

MetaReview

Advance Indiana has his weekly "Indiana Week in Review" review.

Typical Fare

FWOb wonders, "Ever think some journalists take themselves way too seriously?"

The Indiana Daily Student is beyond parody.

Tolbert Update

Ruth Holladay reports:

Marion County Chief Deputy Coroner Alfarena Ballew said Wednesday that the autopsy on Mpozi Tolbert, 34, shows he experienced sudden cardiac death as a result of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.

Update: Advance Indiana says, "Ruth was right."

The Luck of the Irish

Advance Indiana: "You have to give Democratic prosecutor candidate Melina Kennedy credit. When you get the Star to do your flacking for your campaign, you must be doing something right."

Outsourcing Printing

Leo Morris comments on the decision of the Marion Chronicle-Tribune to shut down the local presses and truck in print editions from Indianapolis.

FWOb:

Editorials exhorting expanded economic development are a staple of every daily newspaper.

Editorial writers are constantly urging local and state officials to take new steps to increase the number of jobs in a community.  The editorial writers urge more public spending on infrastructure, incentives for new businesses, and downtown revitalization.

Well, what happens when it is a newspaper itself yanking jobs out a community? 

The result is that the credibility of that newspaper is shot.

With a Capital "L"

What is it about Libertarians that gives reporters temporary autism?

Watchdogs

Fort Wayne Observed on the Journal-Gazette's Offline: Only in Print, Kind of.

Scott Tibbs: "Bob Zaltsberg broke Herald-Times [Bloomington] policy by printing two letters to the editor that violate the his often-stated policy about claims made against candidates."

Leaking

Ruth Holladay notes yet another departure from the Indianapolis Star, Norm Heikens.

What an Honor

FWOb gets some good coverage in the Old Media.  And well-deserved, too.

Shooting Star

TDW notes the departure of yet another employee from the Indianapolis Star, Tammy Webber.

Oddly enough, despite the seeming mass exodus from 307 N. Pennsylvania, the Star only has two job openings posted on JournalismJobs.com: one for an editor and one listing for the annual Pulliam Fellowships.

Cut and Press

Scott Fluhr busts the News and Tribune [Floyd and Clark Counties] for running a Mike Sodrel press release as a guest editorial.

Tolbert Update

Ruth Holladay:

Now Tolbert's family in Philadelphia is asking whether a connection may exist between his exposure to the toxins in lower Manhattan during the time he was there -- a period of about five days -- and his untimely death five years later at the age of 34.

Tolbert Update

The National Association of Black Journalists are meeting in Indianapolis, and their publication, The Monitor, has a review of the controversy surrounding the recent death of Indianapolis Star photographer Mpozi Tolbert.

Advance Indiana notes, " What is new about the report is Ryerson's claim that the Star was already in the processing of ordering defribillators prior to Mpozi Tolber's death."

Ruth Holladay says that the report is an important exposure of a problem concerning corporate safety, especially at Gannett newspapers, that one won't find elsewhere.

Greased Poll

Ruth Holladay says that the Indianapolis Star's recent and much-extolled poll on blacks in Indiana is seriously flawed.

No Relation

FWOb says the News-Sentinel missed the boat when reporting on the sale of CollegeHumor.com, which is owned in part by Ft. Wayne native Zach Klein.

Cooling Effect

Indiana Parley:

Yesterday, the News-Sentinel's Leo Morris commented at his weblog on a story in another Indiana newspaper which cautioned employees about writing negative things about their employers in their weblog.

That other newspaper in which that story appeared is the Indianapolis Star. IP can only speculate on what would have prompted Star editors to make that story assignment.

Indiana Parley also notes that the Ruth Holladay weblog is now sporting a new header complete with portrait. IP assumes the portrait is of Ms. Holladay. However, IP has provided you with two photos for comparison. You be the judge.

Ruth's Muckraking

Ruth Holladay's accusations against her former employer over the untimely death of Star photographer Mpozi Tolbert are looking ever more shameful as more details emerge.

Advance Indiana notes that her initial reports were inaccurate and that every revision further erodes her credibility.

Somewhat surprisingly, Holladay posts the text of an email from copy editor Michael Jackson, who was at Tolbert's side as he struggled for life.  After excoriating Holladay for speculating on the facts, and then providing a first-hand account, Jackson unloads with righteous anger:

I mention at the beginning of this e-mail that I'm pissed off. That anger is directed at you, Ruth. I sit here at 5 a.m. unable to sleep because I'm so angry. I find it disgusting that you would take Mpozi's death and use it to attack The Star. A man is dead and all you can do is wag your finger at big, bad, greedy Gannett while showing a blatant disregard for the feelings of the people who were there that night. The same people you worked beside for the past 28 years. Why don't you go ahead an point the finger directly at me, Ruth. Obviously I wasn't good enough to save Mpozi's life that night. Certainly my own inadequacy was a greater contributor to Mpozi's death than an initial response to locked doors on Pennsylvania Street or a blocked freight elevator . . .

I do not know why Mpozi died July 3. But what I do know is that it wasn't because of "callousness and indifference" of his employer. The people who were there that night fought as hard as they could, as best they could, to save Mpozi's life. I hope you pray to whatever God you believe in that you never have to experience what we did that night. And if you do I certainly hope no one comes behind you and makes a mockery out of your efforts.

The tone of Holladay's initial post makes it doubtful that her true motivation was a yearning for proper safety protocols at the Star.  This crusade of hers has turned out to be ugly, offensive, fruitless, and shameful.  She should lay off exploiting the death of a beloved employee.

Tolbert 911 Transcript

Ruth Holladay posts the transcript of the 911 call placed the evening Indianapolis Star photographer Mpozi Tolbert collapsed.  She also reports some other troubling details, and the IOSHA investigation looks ever more imperative.

Palladium-Jackson

The Richmond News Review updates us on the continuing story of Rich Jackson, whose firing from the Richmond Palladium-Item garnered the attention of Editor & Publisher.

A Half-Hearted Jab

A question for Dennis Ryerson:  does interviewing interns count as the "deep research" that only the priesthood of Old Media can perform?

Old Media Broadside

In case you missed it, Indianapolis Star editor Dennis Ryerson took a swipe at blogs in Sunday's edition:

Most important, we must maintain a news staff able to exercise our "watchdog" role over government.

If we don't do that, who will? Bloggers who often don't do deep research, but rather re-post what the mainstream media report with a twist that supports their personal views?

If that stings, it's because there's a lot of truth to it, both nationally and right here in the Hoosier blogosphere.  The snark-and-paste genre of blogging represents perhaps the least distinguished attempt at new media reporting.  Or perhaps rumor-mongering is even lower.

But Ryerson's statement also ignores the hard work that bloggers have done and will continue to do.  Exhibit A is Fort Wayne Observed.  Exhibit B is Advance Indiana, who did some commendable research on the impact of Indiana's new anti-competitive realtor's law.  I'll pointedly note that the Star has completely failed in its lofty "watchdog" role to report on this story while bloggers led the way.

As I've said before, I'm not one of those blog-supremacists who believe that the new media will eventually overthrow the old.  But I think Editor Ryerson's dismissive comment overlooks the significant contributions blogs can make to news gathering and dissemination.  He would do well to read this fine piece from the New Yorker by Nicholas Lemann.

Double Expresso

I've long thought that the Indianapolis Star's blogs have been somewhat insular, that is, they don't link to outside pages often enough to fully capture the power of blogging.  RiShawn Biddle, though, has done a great job of this, especially with his "Outside The Star Editorial Pages" asides.

Now Beth Murphy deserves credit for linking to a Slate piece  that criticizes press coverage of meth use (or disuse, as the case may be).  She also writes, "The drug 'czar' pays a visit to Star Editorial Board next week, so maybe we can find out the truth about the 'meth epidemic.'"  It's posts like these that I, for one, like to see coming out of Old Media blogging, wherein readers get insight into what they read in print.

But while the Star's staff was at Slate, did they happen to catch Tim Hartford's article on schools trying to ban junk food?  Does it affect their March 1st editorial about Senate Bill 111?

Old Media Update

Following up on Fort Wayne Observed's original reporting on the scrubbed sale of a collection of gubernatorial portraits, FWOb unfortunately reports that the News-Sentinel cut their attribution in the print edition of Ryan Lengerich's story.  And even more insult: USA Today also declined to reference FWOb.

Seriously, what do you have to do for the Old Media to cite you?

FWOb continues:

Perhaps Ogden Newspapers and the Nutting family will take note of how the editorial policies made by those in positions of authority erode the trust that a community newspaper needs to have in order to survive.

Good reporters like Mr. Lengerich and good editorial page editors like Bob Caylor and Leo Morris, if left to their own judgments, would help create a newspaper that is more trusted by the community and one that is differentiated from its morning competition.

He also provides a case study of how the News-Sentinel, "demostrates that it really doesn't know the community."

And Yet More Rumoring

TDW:

Also on the Indy Star front, rumor has it that a motion has been filed to seal records in a discrimination lawsuit that was filed against the paper by two former employees.

Legally, that's probably a good idea. But it always sends an interesting message when a media outlet that champions access to records tries to suppress its own bad news.

Old Media Snub Bloggers

Advance Indiana:

In the fourteen months that I've been writing this blog I have observed on numerous occasions mainstream reporters intensely and repeatedly accessing and reading specific posts on this site, which is typically followed by a report in the mainstream reporter's publication or news broadcast--each time without any attribution to this site. My initial response was to ignore it--considering imitation to be the sincerest form of flattery. But with so many of the mainstream reporters taking pot shots at bloggers these days, I've decided to handle these matters differently.

Stable Granite

FWOb updates us on the status of Granite Broadcasting, "owner of Fort Wayne television station WISE 33 and operator of WPTA 21."

Realty Star

Both Advance Indiana and the Indiana Law Blog noticed that the Indianapolis Star continues its news blackout of the new State law protecting realtors from competition.

A Pocket of Resistance

Doug Masson criticizes yet another shallow Indianapolis Star article on DST, where they apparently have razor thin deadlines.

Unqualified

Indiana Parley:

The Bloomington Herald-Times reports on the pain caused by the newspaper's misidentification of a person killed in a motor vehicle accident in Lawrence County, Indiana. Yesterday, the newspaper identified the victim as Shirley Wright, a retired professor at the Indiana University Law School in Bloomington. Unfortunately, the Herald-Times did not have the right Shirley Wright.

Understandably, both families are upset . . .

. . . perhaps there might be some who would call for higher standards to be imposed on editors and publishers to avoid such errors in the future.

After all, one can become an editor or reporter without any particular training. There is no test before one becomes a reporter.

How Does the Old Joke Go?

Indiana Parley finds a funny gaffe on WISH-TV 8's website.

Adopting an Orphan

Congratulations to Fort Wayne Observed for some great original reporting on the fate of the Aberdeen American News, one of the "Orphaned 12" Knight Ridder newspapers, which is being bought by the Indiana-based Schurz Communications.

FWOb's look at how the reporters at the AAN covered the sale of their own paper was also picked up by the Poynter Institute's blog.

Ogden

Lots of posts about the purchase of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel by WV-based Ogden Newspapers, Inc.

• Leo Morris:

I don't know much about Ogden Newspapers yet (but I'm sure we're going to be flooded with everything good and bad that is knowable about the group in the next few weeks). For now, I'm glad we're no longer an orphan and that we were bought by a newspaper company instead of a widget maker looking to diversify. The last paper I worked for was publsihed by a family-owned group like Ogden, and there was good and bad in that. There tends to be less corporate gobbledygook, but you can also be the prisoner of your owners' eccentricities.

• FWOb has the McClatchy news release.
• An audio post of Nathan Gotsch interviewing Senior N-S staffer Kevin Leininger.
• More info on Ogden is getting dredged up.
• And FWOb also gets a reaction from Mayor Richard Graham.

Old Papers on the Block

Indiana Parley:

Ownership of the News Sentinel and the majority interest in Fort Wayne Newspapers is on the auction block today. You'd think that might rate a front page story in either of the Fort Wayne's two daily newspapers.

You won't see that, though.

Magnum P-I

Doug Masson brings us up to speed on why the Richmond Palladium-Item isn't too quick.

Writing Down Words

In light of more staff losses, TDW has some advice for the Indianapolis Star: "Hire some reporters!"

One Step Closer to Wayne's World

Public Access TV in Indianapolis?  Liberal Indiana fills us in.

Defamation Communication

Advance Indiana, "A Morgan County attorney has learned the hard way that you better have a pretty solid case before you sue a newspaper for defamation."  Excellent analysis of Shepard v. Schurz Communication, Inc.

The New Old Media

Some praise for old media, from FWOb: "Sunday's Journal-Gazette had an excellent example of how online newspaper content can add, amplify and complement what the newspaper carries in print."

More of the same from Chris Hardie.

And some criticism, from Advane Indiana: "I've commented on several stories the South Bend Tribune's Jamie Loo has written on the proposed human rights ordinance. I don't think I'm being biased when I say she seems way too sympathetic to the No Special Rights folks."

H-T Men

Scott Tibbs has some criticism for the Bloomington Herald-Times here and here.

No Kidding?

Doug Masson: "I’m willing to bet that more people get their information from Daily Kos than from the Palladium-Item."

Judging the Judges II

Advance Indiana provided better coverage of the Marion County Judicial races than did the Indianapolis Star.  Score one for citizen journalism and no space constrictions.

Seeing Stars

Mike Kole responds to Matt Tully's hatchet job:

I think you can see that Tully was just looking to be mean-spirited . . .

For the record, I am not running to get 10%. I'm running to win the election . . .

Ironically, Tully was putting me on the spot to demonstrate the relevance of my party. Really, I'm hard-pressed to discover the relevance of the Star and of Tully's column. Based on the content, it's clearly nothing to do with the public discourse, the ideas therein, or even news. [emphasis added]

And Kole also has some objections to a Dan Carpernter column.

"Scoop'

Indiana Pundit coughs a rather loud Ahem:

News 15 ran a story on the vandalism and stealing of yard signs. I wonder where they got the idea for the story? For those of you who are new to this website, this is a topic that IP raised over a week ago and has been carried on by our readers. The credit goes to the readers that have contributed information on the topic.

This is not an uncommon phenomenon in the world of Old Media.

Lazy Muncie

Mickey Kaus picks up on "Lazy Muncie" and notes its importance lies far beyond amusing parody.  (Scroll down and hope that someday Slate gives Kaus a proper blogging platform.)

Nuveaux

stAllio! has praise for Old Media in nu clothing: "i understand that nuvo has a new webmaster. good job whipping the site into shape, guy."

Those Cartoons

IPFW's student newspaper, The Communicator, published the infamous 12 cartoons with caricatures of the prophet Mohammed on February 15th, with predictable controversy ensuing.

Also predictably, a panel discussion was held last night to discuss the decision to run the cartoons.

Blogger Jeff Fraser was there and has a report, including great audio posts here, here, here, and here over at Fort Wayne Insight.

The Times in McDermott's pocket?

Professor Maurice Eisenstein at Northwest Indiana Comical Politics alleges that The Times is in Hammond Mayor Tom McDermott's pocket.

The Times newspaper of NWI has again shown itself to be completely incompetent in its editorial policy and biased or bought by the McDermotts.  This is the newspaper that dared refer to me as "spewing my spleen" when they have no idea of what they are talking about or their editorial policy has never been right (except for when it favors the McDermotts). ...

With some exception, all of our politicians are failures at making a living so they become politicians or State administrators at some level.  They are still incompetent but are being protected by Bill Nengle. 

The worst of these are the McDermotts.

FW media outlet of the year

Nathan Gotsch at Fort Wayne Observed lists nominations for Fort Wayne media outlet of the year.

Our next category, Media Outlet of the Year, is again not necessarily for the best media outlet, but the one that made the most news. And goodness knows there was plenty of news made by local media outlets.

Symbiotic relationship shattered?

Leo Morris points out an interesting piece that suggests that the internet is fragmenting the symbiotic relationship between big government proponents and and the mainstream media.

A fascinating look at why things are the way they are, politically speaking.

Blogs in print

It's the best of the old and new.  Joshua Claybourn at Indiana Barrister discovers an Indiana newspaper that reports what's happening in the blogosphere.

The Evansville Courier & Press has long been a leader in print journalism by recognizing the importance of blogging. ... (T)he C&P is, to my knowledge, the first paper in the state to consistently run blog posts in print. Kudos for leading the way.

The joys of talk radio

Gary Welsh of Advance Indiana gets into a battle over the Human Rights Ordinance with an Indianapolis conservative talk show host.

You should be ashamed of what you are saying about this important civil rights law. I will gladly debate you in any forum any day on this issue.

Say it isn't so

Leo Morris highlights a study showing what many have been suggesting about the mainstream media's tilt toward the left.

The liberal bias of the media is beyond debate, and this study merely confirms that. Still, it offers a surprise or two ...

Bad news for Indiana News Center

Fort Wayne Observed has the sweeps numbers and they aren't good for Fort Wayne's Indiana News Center.

Even with a strong lead-in from Oprah, Indiana's News Center lost to News Channel 15 at 5 p.m.

Oral Report

The controversy about the Columbus North student newspaper article about the dangers of oral sex will be spun by Bill O'Reilly on tonight's No Spin Zone, advises Leo Morris.  The show airs on the Fox News Network at 8 p.m. Indiana time.

Scant coverage of cops' shootings

Sly at IndyStar Blues wonders why the shootings of two sheriff's deputies didn't receive more coverage.

I shouldn't complain too much. On the same page (A11) where they printed the tiny coverage of the Northeastside shooting, there's a six-inch graphic on how to build a snowman. Now that's some news you can use.

Programming alert!

Nathan advises his story will be aired on ESPN 2 :

I just got an email from a producer at ESPN -- they're going to be running our story on ESPN Hollywood tonight, which airs on ESPN2 at 6:00 p.m.

ALSO: The official address for the USC blog is www.insideusc.com

Warmly and Accurately

Indiana Parley:

[A Fort Wayne editorialist -- in this case, Leo Morris,] did something I found extraordinary; he accurately expressed the thoughts of his major source. I can say that with absolute authority; I was the source.

Smackdown?

Indiana Parley: Leo Morris swats Indy Star managing editor

ALSO: Star does something right

More on Media

Leo Morris on Advance Indiana's post suggesting Mike Pence was being a hypocrite with regard to his shield law:

Pence makes a valid point that there is a difference in a leak that involves “real time” classified information that poses an “imminent threat” (the prison story) and a leak that involved a CIA employee who wasn't really covert and not in any danger from being "outed."

Still, Leo -- who has worked as a professional journalist for more than 30 years -- has several problems with Pence's proposed shield law.  For instance:

Something I write in this blog would be covered under the law because I am doing it under the umbrella of a historically accepted form of the press, i.e., newspapers, TV news operations, public-relations outfits. Something posted on Fort Wayne Observed or Indiana Parley, because they are done merely by ordinary citizens acting on their own, would not be.

PREVIOUSLY: Pence a hypocrite?

Best of Blogging

On Tuesday, the Indiana Blog Review noted an intersting post on Taking Down Words about Congressman John Hostettler picking up tornado debris in Evansville yards, including the yard of a local television reporter.

That reporter went on Taking Down Words and added a comment clarifying the story, and a nice little back and forth followed between he and the blogger.  It's worth a read -- especially if you were unsure whether people really were paying attention to blogs.

PREVIOUSLY: Tornado Aftermath

A Correction

Jim Shella:

Here's a new use for this blog:  a correction.  On Indiana Week in Review last Friday we had a discussion of the Daniels Administration discovery of uncashed checks in the Department of Tourism.  I said that the governor first misstated the total of the checks and I posed the question:  Should the governor check his facts?  He did, at least that one.  It turns out that the error was mine.  Should I check my facts?  It is a priority right now.  I apologize for the error.

Pence a Hypocrite?

Advance Indiana thinks Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, in discussing his media shield law, is being hypocritical due to the fact that the proposed legislation would protect the journalists in the Valerie Plame leak case but not the prospective investigation into a story about secret CIA prisons.

Compelling Washington Post reporter Dana Priest to reveal her source would be entirely appropriate because that leak Pence tells us involved “real time” classified information that posed an “imminent threat.” Pence continued, “My view turns entirely on [whether] the information that was leaked constituted a breach of national security and compromised our national security. That’s precisely the kind of leak that our federal media shield would not protect.”

Apparently disclosing Valerie Plame’s identity in Pence’s view in no way constituted a breach of national security or compromised our national security. The public doesn’t really know since her work at the CIA is classified, and Rep. Pence probably hasn’t had access to intelligence concerning her work either to make that conclusion. Nonetheless, as a former covered and currently classified CIA agent, would Ms. Plame not have reason to fear an “imminent threat” to her own well-being Rep. Pence? Or is it more important to protect the partisan gun-slingers in the White House who recklessly placed her life in danger than it is to discourage future disclosures that could place our intelligence officers lives in danger?

But after a lengthy investigation, the special prosecutor didn't find enough evidence that anyone had violated the law by "outing" Plame.  Advance Indiana seems to take it as a given that Plame's identity as a CIA agent was a secret until Robert Novak wrote about her in his column, but if that's the case, why didn't Patrick Fitzgerald charge Novak's source with committing a crime?

Here's a question for debate: should a media shield law have restrictions, such as if the information revealed "constituted a breach of national security and compromised our national security"?  If so, how does one define those terms?

Tornado Aftermath

Taking Down Words:

"Rep. John Hostettler was down on his hands and knees in a yard in Newburgh picking up nails and shingles Friday morning.

"He told Chris Williams, morning anchor at WTVW-Fox7, he spent Friday going around to different houses with a group from the First Christian Church, clearing debris."

But how did the TV reporter find out about the effort? Ah, right. Hostettler showed up in his front yard.

TRACKBACK: Masson's Blog

God Against Consolidation

Indiana Politico on the vote against the police consolidation plan in Indianapolis:

[...]the swing voter Sherron Franklin voted against the plan partly because she wanted the Mayor to be in control instead.

And partly because God told her to vote that way. Or so she told WISH-TV news in an interview late tonight when I should have been in bed.

If God really cares about Indianapolis mergers and spoke to Ms. Franklin in order to accomplish his omniscient will in our city, fine. But couldn't he have given her a better reason to vote 'no'? Where in the Bible does it say 'Thou shalt not place power with an elected official; the righteous shall instead entrust appointed officials with control of their uniformed officers"?

MORE: Reaction to the vote

Dogwood: Tribune Story Incorrect

The Dogwood Files does some fact-checking of a South Bend Tribune article and discovers a mix-up.

So, if a part-time blogger can figure this out, then why can't a full-time reporter for the largest daily newspaper in northcentral Indiana?

Circulation Figures

Indiana Parley passes on the circulation figures for Fort Wayne's two daily newspapers, one of which is owned by Knight Ridder, a company whose majority shareholder recently called for its sale.  IP also has all the Knight Ridder developments on that front.

TRACKBACK: Masson's Blog on the Indiana Parley post

Blog Roundup

Indiana bloggers on yesterday's New York Times story on Indiana's Time Zone mess:

• Masson's Blog: Deny, Deny, Deny
• Taking Down Words: The Gray Lady keeps Indiana in her sights
• MacRaven: What time is it in Indiana?

Defending Hoosier Bloggers

It's a week old, but this post on why the Indiana blogosphere "doesn't suck," contrary to what some columnists think, is still worth reading.

Daniels and Time Zones

Masson's Blog says Gov. Daniels isn't being straight with the New York Times when he denies coming out in favor of the state going to Central Time during his campaign.

ALSO: Masson outlines the argument he plans to make at today's time zone hearing in Logansport.

UPDATE: The Indy Star reports on the hearing

UPDATE UPDATE: Taking Down Words on the Indy Star story