The Rhino’s John Hammer weighs in on the N&R’s bogus editorial claiming opponents of the proposed downtown design guideline expressed “outright hostility” during a recent meeting with city staff:
The News & Record, despite being a major downtown property owner, didn’t bother to send an editor or reporter to the meeting on the Downtown Greensboro Design and Compatibility Manual. But that didn’t stop the editors at the News & Record editorial page on Monday, Sept. 7 from being critical of those who were present for showing “hostility.”
Two people at the meeting complained that people were not being civil – April Harris, executive director of Action Greensboro and a one-time aide to former City Manager Mitch Johnson, and Sue Schwartz, the president of the Cemala Foundation. Those two appear to think that anyone who disagrees with any edict from the city is being hostile.
I didn’t see or hear any hostility at the meeting. I did hear a young man who has spent hours and hours studying the manual ask an extremely legitimate question about the Design Review Team three times and not get an answer.
…Far from being a government watchdog, it appears the News & Record is taking the lap dog role when it comes to city government.
Not a good week for the liberal media. And is it me, or has the Yes!Weekly lost-in-translation story been underreported? The N&R published the Winston-Salem Journal’s breaking story, but that’s been it. Yes! Weekly is a Greensboro-based publication, and the N&R has waded into Winston’s affairs before.
