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It’s often instructive to see how different papers cover the same event. There’s an interesting example of that today, with Fulton Meachem, the interim director of HAWS, taking a job as the head of public housing in Pittsburgh. Here’s our story, and here’s the story published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Different perspectives. They don’t contradict each other. And yet, each journalist emphasized different things. Understandable, given that Meachem is leaving here and going there. Was our story too negative? Is their’s too positive? I don’t think so. Instead, they play off the respective histories of public housing, and Meachem is a mirror with which to look at those successes and challenges.

A brief break: The OTTERBLOG will be largely inactive for about 10 or so days, as I pursue a little R&R. We’ll see you all on the other side.