State of Denial, Anyone?
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 18:58Consider the Terrell Tribune, of Terrell, Texas. On Election Day, their front-page story was dedicated to John McCain. The next day's lead article was--wait for it--"Jackson Defeats Schoen," in reference to the local county commissioner's race. There were no stories dedicated to the results of the Presidential election. That's pretty funny.
Now, I'll say right up front that the people picketing and protesting this are being rather silly. It's his paper, and he can print whatever story he wants; in turn, they're free to purchase his paper or someone else's.
The humor comes in the publisher's response to the question. He said:
"We run a newspaper, not a memory book service," he said. "We covered the local commissioner's race. We thought that was more important."
Whether one supported McCain or Obama, the notion that the US Presidential election was not the most important story going for November 5th is a wee bit...strange. I've been to Terrell, Texas, and if it's anything as it was then, I'm pretty sure that the Presidential election was far more important than that for the county commissioner's seat.
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Reader Comments (8)
Wes;
The Terrell Tribune is just exercising the adage from the patron saint of all dems Tip O’Neill, who said “all politics is local."
Sounds like the publisher is just showing his patriotism by dissenting from the election.
The publisher is obviously in need of some time in a re-education camp. How dare he show his distain for The One by ignoring him? The headline clearly should have been something like: "The Lightbringer Ascends - Utopia Awaits."
Perhaps by his omission, the publisher was just speaking truth to power?
Maybe Congress can look into applying the Fairness Doctrine to newspapers when they step out of line.
Hey, as I said in the original article, it's his paper. I just thought it funny that, rather than stand up for his opinion, he ducked behind the "this other thing was more important."
He's fully entitled to be grouchy, and has no moral obligation to defend his position to you or anyone else.
Funny? Not much, really, not after this election. I'm heavily invested in grouchiness, as the tone of this post clearly indicates.
Nah, we never would have guessed, Redbeard.