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November 14. 2014 12:01AM Our View: Cheers and Jeers Cheers — to the intrepid space lander Philae, which successfully jumped from its orbiter to the surface of comet  67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after a 300 million-mile chase through space. The European Space Agency's craft didn't manage to fire harpoons into the comet's surface to anchor itself in place, but it is upright and sending back images and other data after bouncing twice, then settling on the edge of a precipice. Considering how much could have gone wrong, that's a tremendous accomplishment by the team that built and launched the craft 10 years ago. Jeers — to Breitbart News, an Internet site with a decided right-wing bias, for the way it handled a major error. Breitbart posted a story claiming that Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama's nominee to replace Attorney General Eric Holder, had represented Bill and Hillary Clinton during the Whitewater case. It's true that Loretta Lynch worked for the Clintons — just not that  Loretta Lynch. They got the wrong person entirely. Errors happen to the best of news operations, but the professional thing to do is to take down the wrong story and run a correction. Breitbart left the story — all about Whitewater, with which the nominee had no involvement — up on the site with a small correction below it, then eventually took the entire item down, correction and all. Cheers — to the Medford Police Department for its Community Awareness Rejuvenation Effort, known as CARE, that will next focus on the troubled Union Park neighborhood in west Medford. The program involves officers going door-to-door in a designated neighborhood and surveying residents on their concerns, including lighting, security, crimes people know about but may not have reported and neighbors who may need substance abuse treatment or other assistance. The department is focusing on neighborhoods that historically have been overlooked. Cheers — to Tami Lee, who put her self-taught art skills to work transforming the lobby of Mae Richardson Elementary School in Central Point with a colorful mural. Working with the principal and office manager, Lee spent the past five months painting the mural, which features kids resembling Mae Richardson students along with the current and a former principal and the longtime educator for whom the school is named.  http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20141114/OPINION/141119799 © 2015 Copyright © 1995-2011 Crain Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use Privacy Statement -->