Part of the dialogue the other day resulting from the post Timely irony was this comment from a Times reporter:
If you think we’re missing an important story like this, don’t just assume that we’re pulling our punches because it’s Foster. Email Bob, Ramon Bracamontes, Armando Durazo or Melissa Martinez and ask for coverage. Feel free to email me, too, but unless it’s a state story, what I’ll probably do is foward it to one of the people listed above because they have the power to assign them. Humans being what they are, a note that is laced with abuse probably isn’t going to be read with more alacrity than one that isn’t.
Let’s do it
I have my own list of things that I would like the Time to do impartial stories on.
Feel free to make your suggestions as comments to this post or email the Times people directly. Please remember to filter the venom as much as you can.
Let’s see what they can do.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
How about they start by exploring the city planner’s use of the term “baseball ready” this week when stating that the new ballpark will open on schedule. That phrase was classic spin. Rather than come out and simply state that the ballpark will in all probability open prior to total completion and not be totally operational, the city planner chose to obscure the facts. The Times enabled him.
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Now that Marty Schladen has put Paul Foster’s conservative politics on the table by supposedly connecting him to the anti-big-government, so-called-free-market Koch brothers, the real question is whether the Times will write about the obvious irony that so-called conservatives like Foster and Woody Hunt teamed up and manipulated local government to impose a tax on other individuals and business owners to pay for their ballpark which they will occupy at a rental rate that doesn’t even begin to cover the cost to taxpayers.
That is a clear use of tax dollars to help enhance their personal real estate investments and increase their personal wealth. How is that not income redistribution? How is that not corporate welfare? How is that not crony capitalism? How is that in any way fiscally conservative?
I doubt the Times will tackle that one. After all, last week they wrote a headline that said “philanthropist” Hunt was donating money to a political action committee (PAC) as though donating to a any PAC, liberal or conservative, is some kind of philanthropic good deed. The use of “philanthropist” in that headline showed once again that the Times no longer has any integrity.
It’s time for Marty Schladen to start sending out resumes.
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hey now, foster has a right to be a hypocrite. why doesnt marty just ask him if he attended or would moore fire him before he got the words out of his mouth ?
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Marty did attempt to talk to Foster, but F’s assistant screened him out.
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How about this: Lets all keep a running total of Ball Park / Hunt/ Foster / Downtown is a Great Place fluff pieces that run between now and the opening of the ballpark in April ? Why just this week we had “Happy Chihuahua Uniforms.”
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