The Dallas Morning News yesterday ran a response from Managing Editor George Rodrique regarding Michael Lindenburger's recent story about Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert's um, shall we say, less than honest statements during the Trinity Tollroad campaign. In short, our oleaginous Mayor's a bald-faced liar. Rodrique's spirited defense of his paper, which has consistently and unflinchingly endorsed this Dallas version of Boston's infamous Big Dig, certainly had some amusing moments. The sneering condescension toward the Dallas Observer and its "tiny staff" is pretty funny, when you consider that Rodrique's own staff is getting tinier all the time. And self-congratulating professions about the nobility of its journalistic enterprise from the paper that continues to employ Alan Peppard while it jettisons Ed Bark, Phil Wuntch, Jerome Weeks, David Dillon and Gerry Fraley (along with hundreds of others) are always good for a laugh. But the best part was the statement that "we don't write propaganda." Bwahahahahahah!
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/askeditor/stories/032709dnediasktheeditor.72a272dc.html
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