"Earlier this week, Commissioners Chairman Melvin “Skip” Alston reiterated a promise there would be no tax increase, saying in other published reports that he was “100 percent” confident."
It was not "reports." It was a single report -- in the Rhinoceros Times. I understand that local media often disrespect each other by
Other than some petty self-satisfaction with poking Rhino Times editor John Hammer, there is no reason for the intentional diminution of the news value of this article.
you can also add the story on the farmers market and the crazy accounting and the report by rhino then a few days later the news 7 record does a story on it with no mention of the rhino.
ReplyDeleteIt's one thing to follow up with your own reporting on a story first reported in another outlet without mentioning "as first reported." It is something different to reference a source as part of your reporting but refuse to name it -- that is just bizarre.
ReplyDeleteThe N&R has always looked down it's nose at The Rhino Times to the point of completely ignoring anything reported in the Rhino, facts be damned. It galls JR and the N&R when the Rhino "scoops" them on stories, so consequently the N&R treats the Rhino much the same as they treat The National Enquirer. Remember the N&R refused to publish any of the John Edwards "scoop" on his love-child because JR considers The Enquirer to be less than credible. We've now seen how the John Edwards story progressed, much to the chagrin of the N&R's ignorance.
ReplyDeleteJR has said on the record in a thread on his site that he won't credit the Rhino.
ReplyDeleteWhich brings us back to the title of this post.
ReplyDeleteJohn Robinson is a joke and so is his newspaper.
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