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

recieved in an email from a copy of the Chronicle website last Thursday ^ | houston chronicle memo

[StopGlobalWhining]

Hoot Hoot!

A hilarious bump. Caught red-handed in the act. So much for objective reporting. What slimes.

[Willie Green]

So much for reporting the news - Hell they want to make the news -

Sounds more to me like they intend to do some "investigative reporting" on the issue.
I see nothing wrong with that,
get the information out and let the public decide.
Seems to me that you just don't like what they intend to report.

[bobbyd]

What this does do is document Lanier's corruption in Houston development and construction projects.

Wow......you HAVE been payin' attention ~

Hey Bubba...Houston Area Texans is still a active group and you are welcome to get your arse to a meeting.

[foreverfree]

bump

[TheGrimReaper]

Indeed, the cost IS and WILL BE astronomical.
Metro's official estimate (which NOBODY believes will be met) is $350 MILLION!! ($400+ million is more like it).

The little choo-choo's route is 7.5 miles, and has 16 stops. The train's average speed will be a WHOPPING 15 MPH.

DO THE MATH: This comes to approx $47 MILLION per MILE IF the official estimate comes true, which it won't.

TXDOT's own mobility studies indicate that Mayor Brown's Trolley will take only 55 vehicles off the streets annually.

Houston/Harris County area taxpayers will subsidize EACH RIDER's FARE to the tune of $12+ per ride. All fares will be paid on the "honor system" ROFL!!

And then, sadly, there are all those business/restaurant owners along Main Street who are being systematically put OUT of BUSINESS during this excruciatingly lengthy construction period.

The whole thing STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN.

[AndyMeyers]

DeLay's position is to let the voters make the decision on whether or not they wish to pay for light rail.

If this "leaked" Memo is genuine, the Chronicle wishes to influence that vote.

One of a policy maker's primary responsibility is to vote to allocate limited resources to those areas of greatest benefit to the taxpayers/voters (the primary one is to keep taxes as low as possible).

What DeLay is trying to do is to get the facts to the taxpayers/voters on the true cost of light rail, the benefits and problems brought about by light rail and let the taxpayers/voters decide.

A newspaper, if it is truly serving its readers, should print both sides of an issue so to inform the public.

What much of the media does today is decide what is best for all of us and then slant the news to accomplish that end.

A local newspaper in Fort Bend County (the base of DeLay’s District to the southwest of Houston - actually Houston is the third largest city in Fort Bend) admits in print that it "smears" a local politician that it does not like and works to remove from office. Thank God for "New York Times v. Sullivan" Supreme Court Decision, right?

Last week a former Mayor of Sugar Land sued one of the columnist of that paper for libel. The yelling about the "First Amendment" rights of newspapers could be heard all the way in Austin.

[ru4liberty]

Oh, that someone would resurrect The Post.

Thanks for posting this. Rest assured that Jon/Mike/Pat/Edd won't let this die out, nor will their callers. Unfortunately, for the most part, that's preaching to the choir.

[friendly]

"Conservatives go to bed at night fearing that the people won't understand them. Liberals go to bed at night fearing that the people will understand them."

The Chronicle let its mask slip.

LOL 'caus its all so obviously true.

[GOPcapitalist]

A local newspaper in Fort Bend County...admits in print that it "smears" a local politician that it does not like and works to remove from office.

That wouldn't happen to be the Fort Bend Star, would it?

[GOPcapitalist]

Spread it far and wide by email, print, calls into talk radio, you name it. And when a part of the Chron's plan is implemented, point it out and remind everybody it was in their memo. It's the first step in defeating this rail referendum thing.

[GOPcapitalist]

[EternalVigilance]

Not having a dog in the Houston light rail fight, this is all quite interesting to me anyhow; as a snapshot of how the liberal media works every day as the propaganda arm of the DemocRAT Party.

Just substitute any issue you want, and this is an inside look at how hundreds of liberal newspapers across the land operate...hide behind 'editorial page first amendment license', and 'news objectivity', to promote liberal causes while at the same time try to undercut Republican leaders.

Thanks to you, we just got a peek at their underwear, and it ain't a pretty picture! Obviously their Mama never taught em to wear clean ones in case they had an accident...;-)

Very interesting. Thanks!

[JusticeLives]

You said,
"Houston's that corrupt."

The sooner everyone realizes this case is NOT the exception, but the way things are today, the better.

[JusticeLives]

You said,
"..LBJ's late 1990s document dump."

If you're talking about the *tapes* C-SPAN released for what seemed like a year :), then I listened to them, as many as I could, and what it reveals to me is how the politicos are the same today as they were yesterday and probably in the future, until the cycle is broken. There's nothing new under the sun. They all want the same things in the end. It's up to each one of us to figure out what it IS. And then put your feet in their shoes and think about how you would go about getting and retaining it. You might be surprised at what you come up with..

[JusticeLives]

You said,
"Maybe it's some fed up writer blowing the lid off of what he thought was a bogus and biased assignment."

I like your theory best.

[bobbyd]

Andy,

Being a native Houstonian.....that moved to Ft. Bend County in 1973.....and now in HTown again....I do appreciate your statement...

Well, I don't appreciate it, I see the irony of growth vs. greed.

How 'bout you and H Curmudgeon (if ya'll are still friends).....lol.....(W...I have NO idea) bring your arses to a Houston Area Texans (local FReeRepublic chapter) meeting!!!

[weegee]

The LBJ revelation that I refer to specifically is him bragging that he held a letter of "silence" from the Houston Chronicle. They would not publish any negative stories about LBJ in exchange for him permitting a Texas bank merger.

Ken Lay was a part of the downtown establishment and a major player in the ballteam. People wonder how the Comical missed the Enron story that developed in their own backyard. They had a gentleman's agreement not to even look into foul deeds. A partenership of common goals.

I don't expect any better motivation behind them steamrolling this town with a rail system that is half assed.

[weegee]

Maybe we should freep Tom DeLay (who has national exposure) to spill the beans on his Hearst opposition.

I can write to Tom (as a grateful citizen of Houston) but unfortunately Chris Bell got elected in my district (the only upside I see is that he won't be our next mayor).

[weegee]

If we take out an ad I recommend getting Registered to edit us up a graphic!

[weegee]

Would someone please send the original message (along with the Comical's link to their half assed retraction) to the Hosuton Press News Hostage editor? I tried to register on 5 different DAMN free email servers and couldn't get a single one to completion (some did not offer options for all of the fields that they required to be filled (e.g. lycos) while others at some stage required some java applet that I had turned off (to prohibit BS popups). I give up on generating an email account to send Houston DePRESSED a missive. Someone else do it please. This is the column that spills the dirt on the other news sources in Houston.

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