The continued bias of the KNS
What a crap newspaper. Time and time again editors Jack McElroy and Jack Lail play a little game to keep important news away from local readers of the KNS.
This is not their other favored technique of omission. That is a time honored favorite of the two Jacks. This is more the needle in the haystack variety. What the two Jack's do is take non-relevant stories from other places and place them above stories this wish to push off the front page. Stories that might be a little uncomfortable for their political friends. It's plausible deniability, the kind the worst people use. "We printed it", heh, if you can find it.
So is a story about the call to audit the Solid Waste Department of Knox County less important than the fascinating story of School Board Chair Indya Kincannon losing 47 pounds? No, it isn't. Is the story of a wanted Morristown man found in a closet more important that the story that may blow the doors off corruption in Knox County government? No, it isn't.
Should we contrast this ploy with the inhuman advocacy journalism of Jack McElroy when he attacked Law Director Bill Lockett while he and his family were grieving the tragic loss of their son? McElroy and Lail kept that cruelty alive for a week on the front page of the printed and Internet version of the KNS. And then in classic fashion had the gall to keep it alive on his blog, where McElroy gives a pseudo apology.
Because of that cruelty there is now a call to remove Jack McElroy as editor of the KNS.
Today a Blabber wrote a good story on an important local issue that few people saw. There is a reason the KNS is suffering. The reason is the two Jack's. They protect their political friends and crucify their political friends enemies. The KNS is no longer a real newspaper. And that is why it will fail.
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