Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Rhonda Bodfield, an accomplished political reporter who was recently assigned to cover local politics by the Arizona Daily Star (in addition to her education reporting assignment), dutifully reported in advance that the League of Women Voters would be holding a forum on the Tucson ballot propositions on Monday. Political notebook So I expected to read Rhonda's recap of the forum in Tuesday's Arizona Daily Star. I'm still looking for it.
Instead, readers were treated to yet another teabagger temper tantrum. Tea Party organizers, Dems square off at downtown events I know your publisher and editor made you cover this, but Rhonda, you're so much better than this. Stand up for yourself. Tell your editor "I'm not covering another teabagger temper tantrum, they're not newsworthy."
And if you (or anyone else who attended this forum) can find the time to get around to it, please report what happened at the League of Women Voters forum.
As a public service announcement, the next public forum will be a town hall event (like catnip to teabaggers):
Prop. 200 is topic of Town hall Monday
Arizona Public Media replaced the topic of its Monday, Oct. 26, town hall on government reform with a more immediate topic: Proposition 200, the Public Safety First initiative.
The town hall will be a full hour of questions and discussions streamed live by Arizona Public Media. Star editorial page editor Ann Brown will participate in the questioning of representatives supporting and opposing the proposition. Questions will be accepted from the audience.
Learn more and join the discussion.
The town hall will be at 6 p.m. Monday at the Leo Rich Theatre in the Tucson Convention Center. It's free.
Since Arizona Daily Star editorial page editor Ann Brown will be a participant, I'll bet Rhonda will be reporting on this forum — mostly because there's a good chance of another teabagger temper tantrum to make her publisher and editor happy.
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The fact that conflict will trump a civil debate in what is called news is no particular surprise, is it?
David, I give the AZ Star another six months tops. Most of the paper is repackaged news-wire stories. When a reporter leaves, they double up assignments rather than rehire. To put it bluntly, they are going out of business, and they will print anything that they think will keep people reading. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the broader community really doesn’t care about a small group of nut jobs like the tea-baggers.