![]() So far, the agency has not issued a retraction, nor has it removed the offensive information from the website. ![]() Byrne sent the park officials and their bosses at the U.S. Department of Interior a factually detailed rebuttal of the allegations. In an email to Gunn and the Seashore’s new superintendent, Craig Kenkel, last week, Byrne requested that the federal agency remove the inaccurate information from its website and send a retraction to the newsletter email list. Instead, almost two months later, NPS officials published a revised version of Gunn’s original allegations in the newsletter and on its website without first contacting the Pacific Sun for a response. Gunn did not respond to the Pacific Sun’s offer. 21 email, news editor Will Carruthers informed Gunn that the article was factually correct and offered to participate in an electronic meeting with Gunn and Byrne to discuss the documentation of the facts. The editors reviewed Gunn’s allegations and decided that the article was accurate. Two month’s prior to the seashore park’s posting of these public facing messages, on Dec.15, PRNS’s Melanie Gunn emailed the Pacific Sun’s editors contesting the accuracy of several facts as reported in “Apocalypse Cow.” However, PRNS management’s statements about the facts presented in the article are demonstrably inaccurate. The newsletter presents itself as an effort to correct alleged “factual inaccuracies” in “ Apocalypse Cow: The Future of Life at Point Reyes National Park,” an investigative article by Peter Byrne published in the Bohemian and Pacific Sun on Dec. The agency posted the same text to a Frequently Asked Questions page of its website under the subtitle “Corrections regarding misinformation published in the press.” ![]() 9, PRNS staff sent out an email newsletter titled “Corrections to Media Coverage on the General Management Plan Amendment” to an unknown number of recipients. The Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) responded last week to an investigative report published in the North Bay Bohemian and Pacific Sun in early December. ![]()
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