GREENSBORO, NC -- Ever willing to withhold important details to avoid offending tender community sensibilities and comfy myths, the News & Record's Jeff Mills wrote this about a statue of former mayor and Bryan Foundation head Jim Melvin at the Greensboro Grasshoppers baseball stadium:
The statue was placed in the ballpark, which is hosting its 10th
season of Greensboro Grasshoppers baseball. The park was built for $22.6
million of private money, an effort led by Melvin and the Bryan
Foundation.
Greensboro Baseball LLC bought the ballpark back from the Bryan Foundation last year.
Allow me to offer a rewrite that includes all of the relevant facts and see if they don't give you some insight into the News & Record's standards and allegiances:
The statue was placed in the ballpark, which is hosting its 10th
season of Greensboro Grasshoppers baseball. The park was built for $22.6
million, including $12 million from the Bryan Foundation that Melvin heads.
Greensboro Baseball LLC bought the ballpark from the Bryan Foundation last year. The group owns the team for which the ballpark was built. Melvin has been identified as a member of the ownership group. The group paid $10 million dollars less for the stadium than it cost to build.
The Bryan Foundation, that Jim Melvin leads, subsidized the purchase of a stadium for the baseball team of which Melvin is part owner: to the tune of just over $10 million. The News & Record dances right up to those facts then, like little boy afraid of being impertinent, averts its gaze.
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