Journal Bias?
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Topic: Journal Bias?
Posted By: VietVet
Subject: Journal Bias?
Date Posted: Aug 26 2011 at 7:04am
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Today's Journal...
Mayor, spots on council to have competition By Andy Sedlak, Staff Writer 10:00 PM Thursday, August 25, 2011 MIDDLETOWN — Voters will have several choices when they vote for the city’s next mayor and three council seats. Mayor Larry Mulligan will be challenged by Paul Nagy, while five candidates will campaign for two at-large seats. Two others — Mike Presta and Ann Mort — will seek to represent Middletown’s First Ward. Thomas Allen, the seat’s appointee following the death of Councilman Jim Armbruster, announced Aug. 16 he would not seek re-election. Aside from Mulligan, councilman Daniel Picard and councilwoman Anita Scott Jones are seeking re-election. They’ll face Eddie Todd Moore, Nick Kidd and Joseph Mulligan for at-large seats. The deadline for candidates to file their petitions was 4 p.m. Thursday at the Butler County Board of Elections. Mort, who served on the Middletown school board in the mid-1980s, said she’s aware of the time commitment that accompanies the post. She said the issues facing Middletown — dwindling funds and a lack of jobs — are the same most cities are facing. “Henry Ford had a statement: ‘Don’t find fault, find a remedy,” she said. “I think if more of us worked toward finding a remedy we could get things done a little faster.” Picard, the Fourth Ward’s representative for the past year and a half, said he is seeking an at-large seat to ensure his presence for the next four years. In the 2013 election, there will only be two seats up for re-election. This is because the city’s charter had been changed to reduce council from seven to five seats, and to do away with voting by ward. “I feel good about my impact and I want to make sure I’m around another four years,” he said. Jessica Whitt, a 24-year-old Middletown resident, said job creation will be the most critical issue candidates will face while campaigning. “If there are no jobs, there is no Middletown,” she said. THIS ARTICLE BY ANDY SEDLAK BRIEFLY MENTIONS MR. NAGY, MR. PRESTA AND A FEW OTHERS, BUT SEDLAK MAKES SURE WE GET A LITTLE LARGER DOSE OF MORT AND PICARD. IS IT ME OR IS IT OBVIOUS THAT THIS DAM NEWSPAPER IS THE WHIPPING POST FOR A SELECT FEW IN THIS BURG WHO ARE APPARENTLY TELLING THE PAPER WHAT TO PRINT? IS THIS NEWSPAPER THAT INTIMIDATED BY THESE MMF PUPPETS LIKE MULLIGAN AND MORT? WHY THE BLURB FROM MORT AND PICARD AND, LIKE ALWAYS, NOTHING OFFERED FROM THE FOLKS WHO ARE "OUTSIDE THE LOOP". WHERE'S THE EQUAL TIME JOURNAL? |
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Posted By: Richard Saunders
Date Posted: Aug 26 2011 at 8:50am
| The most likely case is that the expert investigative journalists at that award winning newspaper could not figure out how to contact Mr. Nagy or Mr. Presta. |
Posted By: acclaro
Date Posted: Aug 26 2011 at 9:35am
| The Urinal simply knows who is the most willing moyhpieces with commentary and opine. Ann Mort has not met a microphone she did like, you be the judge on Mr. Picard. Ms. Mort's commentary was actually hurtful to a thinking mind in the sense she said Middletown is going exactly the same as every city in the country? Oh really? West Chester is suffering the same impact, Indian Hills, Oakwood, etc. If only we all would pull together, and just adopt the 300 people who run Middletown's attitude, we'd all get along fine, and the remedy would be found. The same woman who said washing the streets and woodwork in town would cure the ills from Forbes rating Middletown was one of the fastest dying cities...how did that campaign go? As they say in Texas, "all hat, no cattle." |
Posted By: John Beagle
Date Posted: Aug 26 2011 at 11:22am
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Perhaps Mr. Sedlak will be compelled to cover the other candidates in an upcoming article. I sure hope he does.
When I saw the title I was thinking about this bias: http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/middletown-news/kasich-appoints-mostly-males-1238976.html - Kasich appoints mostly males I don't remember any coverage of Strickland's white man government. And since when is it a bad thing to hire white men? I'm so sick of being singled out as if there is something wrong about being a white male. ------------- http://www.johnbeagle.com/" rel="nofollow - John Beagle Middletown USA News of, for and by the people of Middletown, Ohio. |
Posted By: acclaro
Date Posted: Aug 26 2011 at 12:19pm
| Spot on Mr. Beagle. I am certain you know the Managing Editor or Publisher at the Atlanta Constitution is black, a flaming liberal, whom has national notority for her bias, one sided inaccuracies which portray constantly, the GOP, whites, and men, in a negative fashion, which are never supported by a grain of evidence nor fact. Her goal and editorial theme is to make the Atlanta Constitution and the Cox publications akin to the Huffington Post and New York Times, with lower standards and journalistic ethics. As for the Journal, they simply grab the first mouth that comes to mind. |
Posted By: John Beagle
Date Posted: Aug 26 2011 at 3:09pm
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Yea and when we complain they throw in a George Will editorial to appease us.
That's ok, this site has its own set of counter biases. lol ------------- http://www.johnbeagle.com/" rel="nofollow - John Beagle Middletown USA News of, for and by the people of Middletown, Ohio. |
Posted By: ground swat
Date Posted: Aug 26 2011 at 6:33pm
| Don't change a thing Mr. Beagle. |
Posted By: LMAO
Date Posted: Aug 26 2011 at 11:24pm
Looking at the Middletown Urnal tonight and was wondering,Dont they have spell Check? http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/middletown-news/poll-finds-boeher-gop-losing-support-1239799.html - 10:22 p.m.
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Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Aug 27 2011 at 12:50am
------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
Richard Saunders wrote:Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Aug 27 2011 at 1:33am
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Let’s be fair to my opponent. According to the Middletown Journal,
this is what she said: "At the end of 2009, we want to be able to invite the
Forbes folks to town to have a look and see what determined people can
do," Mort said. … December 19,
2008, Middletown Journal The types of projects planned, according to the article: “Families or businesses might begin with property upgrades
such as landscaping or painting, Mort
said.” “Other projects could include adopting a neighborhood block
and cleaning it up for an entire year.” I have never heard whether or not Forbes returned at the “end of 2009” for “another look”, or if they did, what they had to say, but I am not on the “A” list to receive such information from City Hall. Perhaps someone else can tell us??? ------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
Posted By: ground swat
Date Posted: Aug 27 2011 at 9:55am
| How about starting with city owned property first so the rest of us can see the model she would have us look like. Seen city hall lately. |
Posted By: John Beagle
Date Posted: Sep 02 2011 at 10:37am
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More anti Kasich Journal Bias in today's paper.
Title Reads, "Kasich sells 1 prison, not 5" The journal and their liberal editors want to make it look like Kasich failed to sell 4. Fact is Kasich negotiated a better deal AND earned the state nearly $73 Million in cash. Title should read, "Kasich Sells Prison for $73 Million" That's a better, more factual and less misleading title in my book. END - FRIDAY RANT ------------- http://www.johnbeagle.com/" rel="nofollow - John Beagle Middletown USA News of, for and by the people of Middletown, Ohio. |