Comments on: Daily Paper Ignores “Deep Throat” Idaho Link

By: Kevin Richert, editorial page editor, Idaho Statesman

Kevin Richert, editorial page editor, Idaho Statesman — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:45:51 +0000

I’m digging out from vacation, Dave, but give me a break. The Dec. 19 story on Felt — published one day before the wire story that is the subject of your post — prominently mentions that Felt was a Twin Falls native and University of Idaho alumnus. How about a correction?

EDITOR NOTE– We obviously didn’t see the previous version.

By: norma

norma — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:36:55 +0000

wow, this is a much better blog than the statesman, real people with real things to say.

By: TJ

TJ — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:36:16 +0000

I noted another missing story. My daughter who lives in Western Kentucky told me that there was a front page story about the stunning amount of snow received in North Idaho as well as Washington. I didn’t notice a single story about this in the Statesman (perhaps I’m blind) and got my information about it from relatives in Rathdrum and Spokane.

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:20:29 +0000

Bob, (may I call you Bob), you miss the point and the real fun here.
What joy would it bring for someone at the rag to bring a letter to the editor, to the editor, and have the response be ” get some of this in a re-write or follow up NOW! He is not gonna make us look foolish!”? Absolutely no giggles there!
OR:
“Damnit, I am the editor of this rag, and I am getting real sick of being made to look foolish by a photographer!”
Simply put, it is a lot more fun to point out where the rag isn’t doing their job, than to do their job for them!! Besides, if the rag DID do their job, the Guardian could schedule a lot more fun trips around the world taking photos of beautiful people and places.

By: Bob_Gerber

Bob_Gerber — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:40:20 +0000

I don’t think there is a need for a story in the Boise Guardian about the non story in the Idaho Statesman. Maybe you should just write a letter to the editor of the Statesman if their lack of content offends you.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:51:02 +0000

I remember a lot of the Watergate era stuff. It was history in the making. I was a full time college student at the time and still made time to devour all the latest on the Watergate scandal..

I remember going out to the car while attending the Spokane World Fair and Expo in 1974 to hear Nixon resign from the Presidency of the United States.

Mr. Felt may not be universally accepted as a patriot for his “Deep Throat” by everyone but he surely brought the level of journalism to a highwater mark. His place in history is well beyond the “15 minutes of fame” cited by Andy Warhol.

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:24:18 +0000

Picayune has it correct again! When the sun is just right, you can see the threads of the “cocoon” forming around the building. You have to wonder how they would do on Jay Leno’s “Jaywalking”??

By: BoiseCitizen

BoiseCitizen — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:22:39 +0000

Yawn, ummm, quote the guardian: “Felt graduated from Twin Falls High School in 1931 and received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Idaho in 1935. He married his wife, Audrey, from Gooding, in 1938, and joined the FBI in 1942.”

So, he hasn’t lived in Idaho since then. That is 66 years. While what he did was a heroic deed, his time here in Idaho was a brief stint compared to the rest of his life.

EDITOR NOTE– Same is true for Ezra Taft Benson, Sarah Palin, Ernest Hemingway, Lloyd Bucher (Pueblo fame), Gutzon Borglum (Mt. Rushmore) just to name a few.

By: Once there were heros

Once there were heros — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:49:01 +0000

You are right Guardian. It is curious that the local legacy print ignored his death. Normally, they go out of their way to claim a link to anything and anyone, no matter how tawdry, that so much as brushed up against Idaho at some point in the past. My personal favorite for nebulous claim to fame was when the Statesman touted the local connection to a long removed Playboy Cyber Girl.

My guess is that the Statesman is hesitant to draw attention to a person who had such a clear sense of moral integrity, and need to do the right thing, when they share neither trait.

By: The Boise Picayune

The Boise Picayune — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:44:44 +0000

From what I’ve seen coming out of 1200 N Curtis, they probably didn’t ignore it somuchas not even know it.