[hummingbird]

Remember the internal memo that accidently got out on the Chronicle's website (briefly!) about how they were going to cover the Wham Bam Tram in a positive light so that it would pass? Wonder if any kind of "cha-ching" passed hands over that decision to "sell" the Death Train to Houstonians?

[TheGrimReaper]

You mean there could be thieves as well as liars down at the Comical?!
I'm utterly aghast.

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[weegee]

Accidental Houston Chronicle memo admits to tainting the news with political agenda

Next November, voters in the city and across the Metropolitan Transit Authority service area will cast a truly important vote: They will decide whether Metro should be permitted to expand our rail rail system beyond the 7-mile South Main line.

There isn't a more critical issue on the horizon. I propose a series of editorials, editorial cartoons and Sounding Board columns leading up to the rail referendum, with this specific objective: Continuing our long standing efforts to make rail a permanent part of the transit mix here.

The timing, language and approach of the paper's editorials would, of course, be the decision of the Editorial Board. But I suggest that they could be built upon and informed by a news-feature package with an equally specific focus: Telling the story of rail here by examining the long term relationship of the two key players in the local transit wars -- Rep. Tom DeLay and former Mayor Bob Lanier. For better or worse, (mostly worse, I would argue) no two have had a more significant impact on transit decisions here...