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Taking the News Sentinel to task
Posted By katie allison granju
LVG says our local newspaper of record isn’t doing its job:
The emperor Nero, it’s said, fiddled while Rome burned. We might say that our town’s only daily newspaper is following suit.
In today’s Knoxville News Sentinel you can find an article by Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale on the importance of education in developing and maintaining a work-force that will attract employers to the area. It’s pretty standard stuff, and says little more than much of the self-serving material available on the county web site.
In letters to the editor, several citizens lambasted the Knox County Commission in general and a couple of commissioners in particular. It would be an interesting exercise to compare the number of letters the KNS has printed critical of County Commission to the number critical of the Mayor since last summer. My impression is that the former outnumber the latter, but I’ll freely admit my error if shown otherwise.
What’s more troubling is the ongoing absence of a strong editorial voice in addressing the scandal in the Mayor’s office. Certainly the KNS has provided “straight news” coverage as one after another of the Mayor’s former employees took one for the team, but where is the call — nay, the insistence — that this cancerous executive branch be excised so the body politic can heal?
Apr 7th, 2008
I agree with Larry on this. KNS has not done the tough investigative reporting that should have alerted us to the misdeeds in CC & the Mayor’s office. How else would “outsiders” know what some say we should have known before we voted for them? Thank goodness for the internet - more people now have access to the puzzle pieces and can collaborate online to fill in the gaps.