So, remember last week when poor Tyler Vogt didn’t want to meet with those awful people from the Star editorial board because they were going to be mean to him because of their liberal bias?
Sure enough, he refused to meet with them. I gave him some stick about it because, well, the Star hasn’t exactly been a friend of the city council lately and wouldn’t be hostile territory for someone who talks smack about the council.
So, yesterday the Star went and endorsed the guy. They even called him “cooperative” despite his rhetoric against them and the city council members that he presumably will have to cooperate with.
Tyler can stop crying. They aren’t so mean and nasty; they like him after all.
It does beg a question though: do candidates have to show up to editorial board meetings any more?
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Doesn’t sound like endorsements are won by performance at all. A friend of mine, now deceased, once had an endorsement from the Star after the editor interviewing him fell asleep during the interview. Still, the Star really shot low on this one. Vote for Shirley. She actually does the work.
And in a related note, I wonder if Rick Grinnell has actually shown the public his client list?
I mean, the Star had a hysterical GOP Press Release on the front page today announcing the shocking,’gambling going on at Ricks’ revelation that Jonathan Rothschild is a partner in a law firm with city contracts.
You know, like Rothschild talked about and dealt with way back in the primary?
But the local Goopers are on the fainting couch proclaiming there’s nothing NOTHING I SAY, that could ever erase the awful evil stain of having done contract work for the city….
It raises the question, it doesn’t beg it.
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/begging-the-question.html
And this coming from a person who destroyed two newspapers with his mangling, er editing?
It begs the question of why you still write anything? No one cares.
Lets all remember this one the next time Brodesky writes one of his front-page editorials calling for civility.
The Arizona Daily Star is terminally ill. To give some benefit of the doubt, as one might one’s dementia-addled grandfather, it was once a serious and respected part of Tucson’s community. The familiar calligraphy of its nameplate stirs a sense of elderly dignity. But the elder has been shitting its pants like this for a few years now. Is this stupid Vogt endorsement really that much of a surprise?
Here’s the thing: the Star folks know it’s over. They also know we know. We see the circulation. We saw the layoffs. We saw the debt restructuring and we saw that that didn’t work. We see Lee shares trading on the NYSE for cheaper than a Snickers, and we know what now looms. There’s no pretending anything’s alright anymore at the Star.
It’s dying Just let it die. It’s an ugly ending but make no mistake… it’s ending.