Sayeth The News & Record's John Robinson, "When You Can't Get The Story, Tell The One You Can Get": Are You Fricking KIDDING Me?

John Robinson, of the Greensboro News & Record, had a post up on his blog yesterday that I did not see until late tonight . . . after a very long day of doctoring babies and children . . . far from the home I was rail-roaded out of almost twelve years ago.  I should have been in bed an hour ago - because it's going to be a long day again tomorrow.

I'm republishing John's entire here - in blue - because it's just so darned "progressive":

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch got a tip about a surgeon who took out the wrong kidney.  The paper decided that was information that its readers might want to know about.  Fat chance.

But in an interesting twist, the paper wrote about its pursuit of the story and the dead ends it ran into.  The story ends in a dead end, actually.

From the Columbia Journalism Review:  Kohler’s story is super-important—and not only because it describes what reporters are up against with the agencies supposedly protecting the public and what families are up against when a loved one is maimed or killed by a doctor.  It speaks to the broken medical system we have just spent the last two years debating, the supreme position of physicians, and the government and private regulatory structures in place that keep them on their pedestal.  It also calls into question the usefulness some of the data that are available.

Now, ladies and gents, I have not even tried to post on John Robinson's blog since February 2008 . . . at the height of Blogsboro's "banning" phase. 

He only had to pull that stunt once.

But this SANCTIMONIOUS, HYPOCRITICAL PIECE OF JOURNALISTIC TRIPE made my blood boil.  Words are inadequate to express the thoughts this doctor (bruised and battered and uber-scarred-for-life from the fall she took off that IMAGINARY "pedestal" when she put her faith and hope in Mr. Robinson and Edward Cone) thought as her eyebrows furrowed and clouds literally gathered over the computer. 

So I gave leaving a comment a shot.  My fingers were flying - the keyboard was smoking. 

And lo & behold, the comment PUBLISHED (only time will tell if it stays up)!?!

This is the first comment I've even tried to post on the Editor's Blog since being BANNED from this blog in February 2008.

Tell the story you've got? Are you KIDDING me?

Local doctor here.  Pediatrician in public service who was threatened - then FIRED by a local "NON-PROFIT" hospital for standing up to those threats and saving a baby's life (a baby whose care was being BOTCHED by a then-Cone-owned doctor).

Then SLAPP-sued for reporting what happened to DHHS, the Medical Board and Peer Review.

Then SWINDLED by perjury (no statute of limitations), contempt and fraud at settlement (in my favor).

Your newspaper has REFUSED to even look at the black & white EVIDENCE of the CRIME - when it was offered to you on a SILVER PLATTER.  You wouldn't even print an ad for my website when I offered to PAY you for the privilege of informing the public you say you serve.

You and the deep-blue blogging-elite of Greensboro put me through HELL on these blogs.

Healthcare "reform" has come and gone.  Ethics scandals pour out of Raleigh. Corruption has K-O'd our economy.  You stuck up your nose at a story-right-under-your-nose . . . and very relevant to all of those things . . . that you could have told back in 2003.

You've got some cheek putting this post up, JR.  Really.  You're lecturing us about all the roadblocks you've encountered trying to pull back the veil on medicine?  Tell the story you've got?

Really. You are UNBELIEVABLE!

I honestly do not understand how some people can sleep at night - or look at their reflections in the moniter.