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Burke County school board revokes a local paper’s special access after alleging repeated inaccuracies
Summary
The Burke County Board of Education read a formal statement accusing a local paper of publishing misleading and inaccurate stories and voted unanimously to revoke that paper’s special media privileges while preserving its legal rights to attend public meetings and request records.
The Burke County Board of Education on Dec. 15 read a formal statement accusing a local newspaper of "misleading, inaccurate, and distorted information" about district matters and voted to revoke the paper's special media-access privileges, including advanced briefings and priority interviews.
The statement, read during the open meeting, said the board values journalism but concluded the paper had "not met the basic expectations of accuracy, integrity…
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