Voice For Liberty in Wichita

From Karl Peterjohn, Kansas Taxpayers Network

I have just received a second legislative email from another legislator who has told me that this legislator’s Eagle subscription is now history too. I have asked this legislator by email whether or not they would like this to be added to the public record.

In addition, Democratic candidate for the Kansas House of Representatives in the 87th district in east Wichita Rajeev Goyle has posted on his web site that he is a former Wichita Eagle employee. This is surprising news that should have been included in the Wichita Eagle’s news coverage of the legislative race. It is an outrage that this Eagle connection was not mentioned. Goyle’s Eagle ties should have been mentioned in both the news as well as in the Eagle’s editorial endorsement of Mr. Goyle.

Internet reports today indicate that Goyle was campaigning outside a voting location and confronted by a prominent GOP attorney there. That type of electioneering would certainly violate a number of election laws but he is a liberal so this trangression will probably get memory hole treatment.

What other salient facts about the candidates have not been reported? Here is another fact.

I have yet to hear any of the Wichita news media report about Phill Klines numerous endorsements by law enforcement professionals and organizations when these endorsements occurred……months ago.

It was unintentionally hilarious to hear KNSS try to report that one of the 89 sheriffs who had endorsed Kline was withdrawing his endorsement without mentioning the other 88 last week. That 88 included a majority of the Democratic Sheriffs in Kansas too.

If that would have been Morrison receiving 89 endorsements from law enforcement, that would have been front page, above the fold news. I can see the headlines, “Morrison endorsed by GOP sheriff’s”.

How many sheriffs endorsed Morrison? Is it a number greater than zero? I will never know by reading the Eagle.

A couple of weeks ago there was a national report about declining newspaper circulation. All but a few of the major newspapers including my personal favorite, the Wall Street Journal and their outstanding editorial page, reported circulation declines. The Wichita Eagle was too small to be listed in this story but a KC friend reported that the sister KS newspaper in the McClatchy chain, the KC Star, lost 5% and 4% respectively on their Sunday and daily editions in this latest report. That’s similar to circulation declines at other left wing daily newspapers like the Washington Post and NY Times.

I received this message presenting more evidence of bias at The Wichita Eagle, this time in a story by reporter Deb Gruver. The boss referred to is Sherry Chisenhall, Editor.

Deb,

I don’t make a spin accusation lightly but I am sick and tired of the misleading bilge I am reading in the Eagle. I’m copying your boss to extend my complaint about spin to the management as well as the working reporter level at the Eagle. A point in your “Pinch” article rose to the top of the heap this morning and I am steamed about it.

Your article describes, “… the Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan nonprofit group…”

Bunk. That’s left wing SPIN.

The Center for American Progress is a left wing think tank…..or you could also describe it as a liberal think tank. Conversely here’s how the Eagle describes the “…conservative Heritage Foundation…” or “…the libertarian CATO Institute” if you mentioned these nonpartisan nonprofits in your news article. CATO and Heritage are equally “non partisan” although I cannot recall ever seeing “nonpartisan” or “nonprofit” used in describing either organization in the Eagle. It applies as much to them as it would Soros’ new think tank.

The Center For American Progress is one of the new, George Soros funded left wing think tanks and a cursory examination of their web site shows it being headed by former Clinton staffer John Podesta, includes a “Distinguished Senior Fellow,” Tom Daschle as well as being filled with a variety of liberal and leftist activists.

If you want to quote them: fine. Emphasizing the “non partisan” nature while not doing the same for non leftist think tanks is SPIN. Stop it.

It makes many of your knowledgeable readers mad.