Comments on: Duck, and cover up

By: Tough universe « live apartment fire

Tough universe « live apartment fire — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:05:44 +0000

[...] it dawned on me… hadn’t I seen this before? Turns out I’d read about it on this very site… in June! WGCL had foisted on its viewers a five-month-old [...]

By: jigsaw

jigsaw — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:18:22 +0000

what’s amazing is how dependent everyone in this town is on PIOs.

It’s time they got called out.

By: arky

arky — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:19:36 +0000

Poor school board members… they generally go from having no previous experience in public office to suddenly being in charge of a complicated political enterprise that, in many cases, is the largest employer in the community. No wonder they tend to be clueless about management and tone-deaf about public relations.

As Doug says, they’re not being well served by Ms. Hale, who is supposed to be intelligently guiding them.

By: Element

Element — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:05:53 +0000

Good stuff!

By: Brandon B.

Brandon B. — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:04:52 +0000

I have always enjoyed WGCL’s investigative reporting, and this story is no exception. Go Wendy!

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:00:23 +0000

I could not believe the PIO actually put that in writing! You’d think she’d KNOW that it would become public.

How much better would it have been (for the system) if each member had stopped, said, “sure, I’ve got a minute to chat, but first, know that I am aware of the problem you’re reporting, and we are looking into the situation. Until that’s resolved, there really isn’t much I can add, except to say that, if it turns out we do have a problem with this contract, I’ll be asking that we void it.”

Instead, you’ve got them running like frightened five year olds.

Way to go Wendy, nice work.

By: toodles

toodles — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:40:27 +0000

It’s ather amazing to witness a TV station and it’s staff going through an actual turnaround from across the street.

Clearly management has a plan that might actually work. Now if they can get their ND to stick around we could have fun in this market.

By: spaceyg

spaceyg — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:13:20 +0000

You go Wendy!!! Not because of how you totally dogged this story in that slogging, boots-on-the-ground way not many people who love to call themselves “journalists” care to wrinkle their suits doing. But because you passed His Royal Smugness’ stink test. You can continue on with your life now. Whew!

By: rptrcub

rptrcub — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:39:31 +0000

Good on her. As much as CBS 46′s “Tough Questions” mantra can get applied on piddly stuff for questions that really aren’t that “tough,” this was a good one to be aggressive on.

By: kicker

kicker — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:29:10 +0000

Go wendy.