I am forwarding this from another listserve. I did not see this story on
channel 13 but heard from others who thought it was not fairly presented.
Did anyone on this listserve see it?
Jane Clark
I wanted address the news story on the Engeldinger Marsh bypass aired by
channel 13, WHO in Des Moines, on Wednesday night (June 19th) during their
10:00 news broadcast. The story was clearly along the lines of
sensationalism, and was, in my opinion, very biased and poorly done. They
attempted to make the issue into a waste of tax payer money, while not
clearly providing insight into the uniqueness of the marsh. At no time
during the story did they discuss, or allow the point to be made, that
Engeldinger posses unique geological and biological properties deserving of
protection. It seemed to me that they clearly intended to make Engeldinger
seem, to put it in the terms that I believe they were attempting to portray,
like just another swamp. They then attempted to make a cost analysis of the
bypass, suggesting that the bypass was costing tax payers an extra 4 million
dollars. However, based on their presentation of this figure, it appeared
that this number did not consider any inherent costs of the road. For
example, it didn't seem that they even considered or subtracted what the
cost of the road would have been had it gone straight through the marsh,
etc. Unfortunately, I am not as familiar with the history of this conflict,
nor even of the marsh itself, as I am sure many of the INP list serve
members are. For this reason, I was hoping that this email could initiate
information collection or volunteering by people well informed on this
issue, with the intent of creating some form of a rebuttal, perhaps to the
station itself or to Des Moines Register.
Thanks,
Matt
Mathew E. Dornbush
Iowa State University
Dept. of Botany
353 Bessey Hall
Ames, Iowa 50011-1020
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