The El Paso Times front page headline yesterday introduced an article about the city releasing more than 180 previously unreleased emails Tuesday evening. Two reporters worked on the article.
Old news
I don’t think that there is such a thing as old news, but evidently the Times does. The emails in question were released a few weeks ago on the city web site. I know — I read them weeks ago.
Out of touch
Are the Times reporters and editors this much out of touch? City council approved releasing the emails on August 20. Yesterday was September 17. The documents were on the web site soon after August 20.
Did the reporters miss the invention of the wheel? Will that be their next headline?
I can’t imagine the reporters assigned to the city beat not knowing for a month that the emails were released. The email controversy is a major one in the public mind.
Maybe it is true that the reporters do not investigate our city government, but instead only act as a publishing arm for the city.
Bashing the schools
The same issue of the Times featured an article where the El Paso Independent School District rolled out a new payroll system. They paid over 10,000 employees. The headline “Payroll glitch hits hundreds” portrayed a pretty ominous picture. Of the over 10,000 paychecks, 355 were reported to be wrong. Anyone in business knows to expect problems with every payroll.
The Times evidently thinks that this is another sign of the incompetence over at the district. If it is, shouldn’t we hold the new board of managers responsible? After all, the chief financial officer (CFO) of the city is a member of the board.
Then again maybe we should have expected a bigger failure given the CFO’s history of presenting wildly misleading numbers to city council.
Talk about embarrassing! The Times has sunk to a new low in my opinion.
Muckracker
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So the EP Times has a point of view and you have another..”No Problem”…it is All Good EP”
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