Statesman: Observations

Since apologists for the Statesman have injured sensibilities when they see their precious paper criticized wp2 shall label the following observations for the week.

Three stories jump out at us with the first from the front page on appropriations from Congress. Prior to their rants about Senator Craig they use to praise appropriations for Idaho’s universities. Now they call it “pork” in their headline.

A story this week on Idaho’s economy also took a negative turn rather than report it as the good news is is for the state. While Idaho had the third fastest growing state economy and increased income by $2000 a year the Statesman still reported it as bad news.

Finally, rather than report university fees in relative terms they chose to portray fee increases as
something that would stop students from attending….at least the headline. They finally did point out in the jump that Idaho is below the Western state average in cost and the third lowest in the West.

Statesman: More of the Same Garbage

How low can the Statesman go? On Easter Sunday when every other media outlet is focusing on this Christian Holiday, the Statesman does a front page story on Claude Dallas.

When they do a story about Bill Sali’s opponents they only talk to four people who are critical of Sali and neglect to talk to the hundreds of thousands of Idahoans who support him.

When they do a story on Obama, they only talk to people who are supportive of Obama and not a single Idahoan who might disagree with his flimsy campaign.

When they do an editorial about disclosure in government they only mean disclosure for Republicans because they ignore the the revolving door of Kate Kelly and the questionable behavior of Bieter’s boys.

And when is Popkey going to come clean on the Craig story. Not to worry. wp2 will be sharing some exclusive interviews with you this week that will show what a sham the Statesman’s reporting has really been.

Statesman: What About Full Disclosure?

Kevin Richert, one of the most liberal people in journalism, couldn’t even come clean on his editorial Sunday, March 9. wp2 found out that Richert the propaganda from none other than Walt Minnick.

Why wasn’t that in your story, Kevin?

And why don’t you give the Knowlegis, LLC non-partisan, private thing a rest? If it is so non-partisan why are you and Minnick jumping on it?

And oh by the way, why haven’t your really done your homework on why the ED of the Democrat party was fired? It wouldn’t be because Minnick and his wife are involved?

Let wp2 guess who you are going to endorse for the Dem 1st CD primary: Minnick perhaps?

And if he wins the primary are you going to endorse him for the general?

Your left wing newspaper still hasn’t done anything on Kate Kelly and her own revolving door. When are you going to look into what she has been doing?

You are constantly badgering Republicans to have open meeting laws and have full disclosure when you can’t even disclose where you got a simple piece of information.

How can readers believe anything you write?

How about that McClatchy stock? Still dropping I see.