It’s an odd thing for a newspaper to ignore what some people might consider a news event, but The Erwin Record made a decision last week to not give any coverage to Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church.

The infamous hatemongers at Westboro had threatened to protest at Senior Airman Benjamin D. White’s funeral, and it got a lot of media attention. The Internet was buzzing, too.

But here at The Erwin Record, we made the decision to ignore Westboro. We didn’t try to interview the folks at Westboro, because we don’t think a hate group is worthy of our attention. We didn’t write about if for this week’s newspaper or even post anything on our website. More...