More accuracy issues

So for The Clipper we hand out accuracy surveys to the sources of our stories.  Well...today just sucked in that regards.

I did a profile for one of the clubs and interviewed three of the officers of the club (the president didn't attend the meeting I went to for my interview).  I went to their officer meeting today to get feedback (the president was there and seemed to have no idea that there was piece about them in the online edition of The Clipper).  So he was reading it for the first time and he turned to me and asked if it had been published already.  I said that it had, I was just getting feedback on my reporting and whether it was accurate.

He thought I portrayed the group as "chaotic" because I had said that they are currently homeless (they have no set meeting space and it changes every week).  The three other officers had said exactly that to me in the interviews, and so I thought it was a fun little fact and it was true and so I printed it.

He went to my editor after the officer meeting and basically told her to retract the story or parts of it.  And she said that since all of the information was true and accurate, there was nothing that she could actaully retract.  He was just pissed that I had made them sound like they didn't know whta they were doing.

So I have a feeling that he will go to the advisor for The Clipper and complain about me.  No one else from the club seemed to have a problem with it.  My editors agreed with me and thought that them being "homeless" was a cute little fun fact that made the story interesting.

I didn't think that it made them sound chaotic at all!!  It was funny and interesting and I am kind of annoyed that he has a problem with it.  Because he even told my editor that eveything (including the homeless bit) was true and accurate!!!

So annoyed...I will get to the other issue in another post!