Crow Wing County Commissioner Paul Thiede, a former newspaper editor himself, complains that the editor of the Brainerd Daily Dispatch acted unethically when he sent a private letter on newspaper stationery to a select group of people (50 members of a Blandin Foundation leadership program) to solicit letters to the editor that were favorable to the editor’s position in the midst of a bitter debate over the county board’s decision to abolish the county welfare board.

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Drs. Robert Uppgaard and Jack Echternacht, both dentists, complained that the paper failed to meet desired journalistic standards in its overall coverage of the city’s prolonged controversy over fluoridation of its water supply. They further complained that the paper imposed unfair and inconsistent policies on letters to the editor in regard to the controversy.

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