Bledsoe strikes again (Joe's take here).
Lorraine Ahearn and Ethan Feinsilver are peas in a rotten pod.
I remember, not too long ago, being perhaps the first in the GSO blogosphere to be called a "wack-job" for penning this piece on the peculiar brand of journalism practiced by the Greensboro News & Record.
Allow me my due. I told you so. Time wounds all heels (Hi Ed!) and heals most wounds. The truth about the sad/sorry state of journalism in Greesnboro and Asheboro makes the local "news"papers easy to trash.
Dr. Mary's not wacky after all.
And OBTW. I've made my decision. That little health scare earlier this month made things crystal clear for me. The state of North Carolina (specifically the NC Medical Board and NCDHHS) and I are going to do the legal tango over what Bob Morrison and his "team" did to this former public servant in Asheboro. I've never wanted to do this. But what Randolph Hospital did to me was purely and simply wrong. And what adds insult to repetitive injury is that I was abandoned to swing in the wind by the governments I served. It never should have happened, and the state/Federal governments - with all of their regulatory arms - had many, many opportunities to stop what was going on.
It make take a little while to get off the ground . . .
. . . but woe be unto anyone who gave/continues to give this way overpaid, way over-rated, lying, sexist dirtbag of a hospital CEO . . . this unconvicted felon . . . aid, cover and shelter.
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According to the News & Record's Sunday March 1st, 2009 edition, Ms. Ahearn will no longer be writing her column, and will be going into investigative reporting. While I have reservations as to her objectivity, and fairness, it will be a much welcome relief not to have to see her smirking mug on the front of the Local section.
The untalented hack, Bill Morris, whom she replaced, has long since been lost to obscurity. We should hope as much for her. The journalistic world would be the better for it.
Lorraine, we hardly knew ye....nor did we want to.
Sorry for the delay in responding. I had to outrun an ice storm.
As I said over at Joe's, Lorraine Ahearn will no doubt continue the proud tradition of Ethan Feinsilver.
Of course, the Internet has lately proven to be a formidable weapon in combating that despicable brand of journalism. Poor Jack Perdue didn't have the Net at his disposal when the N&R worked it's black magic.
It's almost amusing that the N&R has finally figured out that local investigative journalism might be the one thing that can bring the newspaper back from the brink. But I wonder if they've also realized that they need to ditch the suck-up-to-the-powers-that-be routine and leave the not-so-hidden agendas at the door.
Lorraine's last column was perhaps the most nauseating thing I've read in a long while.
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