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Article: `Elderly' man in audience is really just a man in the audience.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- August 22, 1999
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1/3 Cheryl Heitkamp asked, "At what age is a person `elderly?' "
She was rankled by an Aug. 13 story that said, "an elderly man in the back of the room (who later declined to give his name) responded with a loud expletive."
The occasion was a meeting of St. Paul residents to discuss the merits of a tax increase to help build a baseball park for the Minnesota Twins.
Reporter Kevin Duchschere responded:
"Since the gentleman declined to give his name, I used `elderly man' as an identifier, a way to give the readers a picture of who the speaker was. We often report the ages of people who speak in our pages for the same reason: It ...