Related to this Housecalls post and this one, in his latest editorial in the Courier, Ray Criscoe does his best John Robinson impersonation, and offered us his (sorry) excuses for the emphasis he chose not to place in the immediate aftermath of tornadoes that decimated entire communities in the Eastern part of our state last Saturday.
Ray explains that it's all about the "hyper-local". That's what sells newspapers (as if he would know).
It reminds me of Peggy Morrison's whine after local sympathy for North Carolina's far-Eastern victims of Hurricane Floyd threatened local United Way coffers. This is the woman whose husband made over 700,000 in 2008 as the CEO of "non-profit" Randolph Hospital.
Charity has served them well.
Of course, if the newspapers hadn't been paying attention to something besides the "hyper-local" back then, the money might not have been diverted in the first place.
So Ray might actually be on to something.
Therefore I proclaim my discovery of a new syndrome in thoughtlessness and tunnel-visioned selfishness in journalism, and dub it PMS (Peggy Morrison Syndrome). Please pass the chili.
I'll take a pass on the Nobel, thank you very much. Recent recipients have left me cold.
P.S. I picked my side long ago, Ray. You missed that hyper-local story.
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