Questions raised over Virginia newspaper's delay in report of attack on reporters (by 30 teens)

[Blue_Tires]

3. The Pilot is my local paper

I've even freelanced for them in the past, and trust me, that paper is far right from top to bottom, save 3 or 4 people...Try finding a single reader comment on any story that isn't in teabagger moronese..

While slashing the staff a few years back, the publisher was writing multiple six-figure checks to Focus on the Family and other nefarious organizations...

The publisher also hired some wannabe hotshot crony exec editor to "fix" the paper's "problems"...His solution? Slash even more workers and cut salaries, give himself a six-figure bonus, declare victory and split -- Do I even need to mention he was an attorney by trade, who had never worked a single day in media??

There was absolutely zero liberalism in their motivations...What really probably happened was they didn't think the story was worth covering in the first place for whatever reason (the Pilot has no qualms whatsoever about painting the black community as a bunch of criminals), the RW blogs picked it up and it started to snowball, pilot management was keen to defend their honor after being called a politically correct trotskyist rag controlled by the Black Panthers, BUT even they knew they couldn't stretch their 'professional' boundaries to cover an old story, so the op-ed was the only way...