In the interest of more fairness...

From a Southern Baptist Pastor's weblog:

Hi Danielle,

My name is Marty Duren. I'm a Southern Baptist pastorand noticed
your online story about the disasterrelief workers in Clewiston that refused to
distributewater provided by Anheuser-Busch.I would like to hear your response to
the AlabamaBaptist Convention statement which read, in part, "Atno time was
anyone deprived of water. In fact, therewas a huge surplus of bottled and canned
wateravailable at the Clewiston relief site. There wasnever any disruption in
the supply of water being given out to members of the public who continued
toreceive food, water and other types of assistance from Alabama Baptist
Disaster Relief workers."The clear implication of your story (4 times in
thefirst 1/2) was that people in line did not get waterat all, while the A-B
cans were sitting to the side. Could you please clarify for me exactly what
youwitnessed there? Specifically, was other pure waterbeing distributed or was
no water at all beingdistributed until the 2 SBC workers helped the RedCross as
you left the site?
Thank you very much.

This afternoon, I
received a response from Darrel Adams, the
Executive Editor and News Director at NBBH (NBC-2). It read:
Marty,
Thanks for your email. We stand by the facts reported in our story and witnessed by
more than one reporter. No water was being given to the people in line until an
alternative to the Anheuser-Busch product arrived.
Darrel Adams Executive
Editor and News Director WBBH NBC2