•November 18, 2020•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

While wearing one of my other columnist hats recently, I wrote about our policy for handling election mug shots in the newspaper.
It wasn’t the idea that we run them with an eye toward fairness — ensuring that the candidates for a given race have similar, suitable expressions or that we always run them the same size — that got reader Stan Zegel’s goat.
Zegel expressed what I now surmise (from our follow-up conversation) was feigned outrage over the ORDER in which we run them.
Remember the name of the guy who lodged the complaint, folks.
“The Daily Herald’s institutional alphabetist bias is revealed in an admission in today’s issue confessing that the newspaper sequences opposing candidates in the same story by the spelling of their surnames.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.