Now former Deputy Police Chief Randall Brady is suing the City of Greensboro. This just keeps getting crazier every day, and just when we thought we couldn’t hit the N&R any harder, editorial page editor Allen Johnson begs for more.
In this morning’s post on the David Wray lawsuit, Johnson and commenter Bobbysitter get into it over the N&R’s reporting of the ‘black book.’ Bobbysitter lays it all out for Johnson, and his only response was the newspaper “reported what sources said about the book and consistently sought comment from Chief Wray about it. What’s unfair and unbalanced about that?”
Is that the best Johnson –who seems like a nice guy — can do? What’s going on there? Was it a cover-up for reporters who wrote that the ‘black book’ was part of Wray’s sinister plot, or is he simply unaware that City Manager Mitchell Johnson — under oath — has directly contradicted the paper’s “sources”? You’d wonder how the editorial page editor of the daily newspaper could not know that, but Johnson’s response was surprisingly clueless. I guess we shouldn’t assume anything about the N&R’s reporting —or lack thereof — on this issue.
Funny, just today Rush Limbaugh said that the most underreported story of 2008 was the death of the newspaper industry.
