Those that continually think the annexation fight is over are really misinformed, and it’s because of editor Floyd Ingram’s personal and professional views on the matter. Take this recent letter to the editor situation that was forwarded to me:
Hi, well I took a copy of that letter to mr.Ingram I guess it is, boy is he a very nasty person. As soon as he started reading the 1st line and seen shrodt mentioned he immediately started asking who wrote that letter & I told him my wife did, he said who in the rcaa helped her, and I said ( loudly) NO one. My wife wrote that & I typed it for her, then he said why don’t you people just give up cause you will be annexed. I said I’m a country boy & plan to stay that why, then he said ” When are you moving then.” I said I’m not planning to, he said you’ll have to. I said that is your opinion. He said he’d look at it later to determin if it would be printed. I said thank you and walked out.
Ingram wouldn’t admit publicly to this, but he will – and does – slant his news coverage to fit his worldview (whereas I just report the truth no matter who it is about), and that’s a shame. Midlothian shouldn’t have to deal with such a overtly and covert biased “journalist.”
5 Comments
March 12, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I have to disagree about your reporting being unbiased.
All news reporting is done through humans. All humans have had experiences and have emotions that affect how they see things.
Bias exists not only in the reporting of what happens, but also in the perceiving of it. You cannot see or understand anything without bias of some kind, which is affected by everything that’s ever happened and everything you’ve felt and believed in.
The problem is that the bias exists in the person whose eyes are seeing the news. There is no way to eliminate it. Two people will often look at the same thing and see two completely different things. Which is correct? Each is correct from his own point-of-view, and each will think the other is incorrect. I don’t want to get too philosophical, but you should not believe yourself to be unbiased, because you have experiences and emotions that will influence you in ways you cannot control, or even see.
March 14, 2008 at 5:04 pm
There is a difference between a natural bias while presenting both sides of the story, and a bias of only reporting the side with which you agree. Mr. Ingram appears to excel in the latter, leaving the citizens of Midlothian without a reliable source of real news.
It’s not even his fault. He’s simply scared of the mayor, whose tactics remind me of Nazi Germany.
March 15, 2008 at 4:12 am
I came across this and found it to be as relevant today as it was in “Red’s” time. Please watch this and think what we are doing to ourselves a country…..
Jim Schico
March 15, 2008 at 9:11 am
Mr. Williams, I would have to say that I agree with you 100% on this one…
April 18, 2008 at 12:19 am
The April 14 2008 issue of the Mirror afforded Mayor Whatley close to 1400 words in one editorial. Mirror asks that editorials be kept to 300 words. The mayor wanted to set the record straight. The rest of Whatley’s straightening will be carr ied in Mirror throughout 2008 and conclude in 2029.