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10-26-2010, 01:03 PM
BluegrassBulletin.com: (http://www.bluegrassbulletin.com)
Kentucky Media Shames Itself, Shows True Colors
Imagine that a controversy existed regarding a republican candidate like the one surrounding whether Attorney General Jack Conway improperly injected himself into a criminal investigation of his brother. Don't you think the two major newspapers and the broadcast media would have gone wall to wall by now?
Take for example the way they treated Ernie Fletcher. One state employee complained that department heads had improperly taken politics into consideration when dealing with personnel issues. That's it. That was the controversy. But what happened was nothing less than a feeding frenzy determined to bring down an entire administration.
Here the evidence from his own words and very reliable police records indicates that the press in Kentucky might have known that Jack Conway had involved himself in what some have said "chilled" a criminal investigation into allegations that his brother was a drug dealer.
Where's the outrage? Why did the Courier run with the story only after other news outlets seemed to have discovered it? Why did they not even mention Jack Conway in the headline? Why has the press been so quick to dismiss any claims of impropriety on the word of Conway that he merely advised his brother to seek counsel?
No doubt the Courier and the Lexington Herald Leader want Jack Conway to win. But likewise there is no doubt why the mainstream media is losing readers, laying off employees, and watching as their revenues drop so low that some publications are being sold for a dollar.
They have shamed themselves, shown their true colors and no longer command any respect.
Want to get a bunch of readers? Want to get back on top? Try doing your job, with integrity, for a change.
http://www.bluegrassbulletin.com/2010/10/kentucky-media-shames-itself-shows-true-colors.html
Kentucky Media Shames Itself, Shows True Colors
Imagine that a controversy existed regarding a republican candidate like the one surrounding whether Attorney General Jack Conway improperly injected himself into a criminal investigation of his brother. Don't you think the two major newspapers and the broadcast media would have gone wall to wall by now?
Take for example the way they treated Ernie Fletcher. One state employee complained that department heads had improperly taken politics into consideration when dealing with personnel issues. That's it. That was the controversy. But what happened was nothing less than a feeding frenzy determined to bring down an entire administration.
Here the evidence from his own words and very reliable police records indicates that the press in Kentucky might have known that Jack Conway had involved himself in what some have said "chilled" a criminal investigation into allegations that his brother was a drug dealer.
Where's the outrage? Why did the Courier run with the story only after other news outlets seemed to have discovered it? Why did they not even mention Jack Conway in the headline? Why has the press been so quick to dismiss any claims of impropriety on the word of Conway that he merely advised his brother to seek counsel?
No doubt the Courier and the Lexington Herald Leader want Jack Conway to win. But likewise there is no doubt why the mainstream media is losing readers, laying off employees, and watching as their revenues drop so low that some publications are being sold for a dollar.
They have shamed themselves, shown their true colors and no longer command any respect.
Want to get a bunch of readers? Want to get back on top? Try doing your job, with integrity, for a change.
http://www.bluegrassbulletin.com/2010/10/kentucky-media-shames-itself-shows-true-colors.html