Geez, Louise!!! A reader just sent me a comment from The World forum regarding Dian not interviewing with the ex Sentinel reporter.
The times that someone running for office has refused me an interview have been relatively few over the past 10 or 15 years. In fact, up until recently, it had never happened.
And of course, Dian Courtright has publicly given various reasons for changing her mind about being interviewed by me: an emergency arose, her schedule is really busy, there’s going to be a forum and you can come ask questions there,
Dian offered him an opportunity to question her at the candidate forum when she needed to cancel her interview… he apparently couldn’t make it. His status as a former reporter for a local newspaper hardly makes him a ‘have to’ stop for campaign interviews.
Someone said he quoted his site stats recently and had only had something like 3,200 visitors in six months. This little site gets over 2,300 visitors every day (and that is excluding googlebots and spiders), enough to contribute $100 a month or so from google ad revenues to local charities. Four hundred of those visitors are repeat visitors returning each day.
For busy candidates The World and The Sentinel are better bets for interview time and I believe both papers have upcoming interviews with Dian. Personally, given his handling of the mayor issue and his unethical publication of recorded messages (really, he should warn people that leaving a message with him is not confidential), I would encourage Dian to stick with professional publications.
Over the years as I have become more outspoken about my politics and activism I have become very selective with whom I grant interviews. Biased journalists can do a lot of harm and completely skew the information you are hoping to pass on and I always found the articles written for The Sentinel when he was working for them to be highly slanted.
Some people in ‘public service’, and I use the term loosely regarding Reaves, Parker, et al, are not in it to serve but in it for power. Reaves, in fact, appears to be running out of spite or for revenge not out of any desire to ‘serve’ the voters. Not a very selfless reason to run for office…
As for the ex reporter, his base is eroding as the old guard falls by the wayside. Had he done his job and actually informed the public instead of peddling whatever line his heroes wanted him to, he might still have a job. Had he behaved like a journalist instead of a groupie the city might have been spared tens of thousands of dollars in settlement claims.
Yup, he’s a “reel profeshunal” journalist that one. What a whiney A…. crybaby.
I think the good ol boys been “outed”, and they aren’t likin it much.