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It seems the summer doldrums have set in over at the RJ. There's lots of wire copy in the paper. Just two local pieces in the main section. The most interesting read in the piece is false on its face. Laura Myers suggests Sharron Angle's popularity could be tested at the Nevada GOP convention. Last we checked, the Clark GOP had been completely supplanted by the Tea Party and Angle has always had strong love up North. http://www.lvrj.com/news/angle-s-reach-in-gop-tested-98008674.html This is a classic set-up story. Myers makes these odd assumptions so that she can report later this weekend about the "unity" at the GOP convention. Sickening really. The real story about the convention and unity is whether local Republicans will want to see Michael Steele's keynote or pony up the big bucks to have their picture taken with him. Of course, Myers misses the political forest for the trees. Jane Ann Morrison weighs in the investiture ceremony for new judge Gloria Navarro. In and of itself, it's pretty straightforward. But since the headline references "Reid's clout" we wonder whether Morrison will get in trouble for showing Nevada's senior senator in such a positive light. And the column really begs an unasked question -- what kind of appointments would Sharron Angle make? Lastly, it seems the crack GAs covering last week's wildfires weren't exactly up to snuff. But there's either a technical glitch or an ominous new trend in the paper's reporting of corrections. There is nothing online about it. Here's today's printed clarification: "Stories that appeared in the Saturday and Monday editions of the Las Vegas Review-Journal about a wildfire in Moapa Valley mistakenly referred to a man who witnessed the fire as a maintenance employee with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The man was contracted by the agency but was not directly employed by the agency, according to Fish and Wildlife officials." The Saturday story was written by Mike Blasky. The Monday story was just a brief with no byline. Interestingly, not only has the correction not run online, but the story with the error hasn't been amended. We're not sure what kind of games the RJ is playing, but they're certainly games.
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