A recent El Paso Times article talks about an area school district conducting a recent audit. The audit evidently claims that the district broke state law when it overspent it’s budget. The Times wrote:
“Tornillo administrators say that the additional $200,000 related to the buyout package were incurred from legal fees related to Vranish’s contract, the audit states.”
Legal fees of $200,000 to buyout a superintendent’s contract? For what?
The Times article missed the opportunity to expose this issue.
Why is it that the Times reports events about the El Paso Independent School District and the local corruption cases with regularity and boring repetition but does not look beneath the surface on other issues?
We deserve better
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The TIMES also reported recently that Willie Gandara Sr. “owned at least two successful Socorro businesses: Socorro Iron & Metals and Gandara Recycling.” The reporter provided no basis for his determination that these privately owned businesses were “successful”. Increasingly, reporters are including subtle editorial comments in articles that are presented as news.
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It is because they want to remind everyone everyday that Susie Byrd is going to save the district and you better vote for her. They have lost all credibility. While real newspapers across Texas are reporting in such topics as SB2 which calls for the beginning of the privatization of public schools, the Times is stuck in cut and paste reporting. We get what we deserve.
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