Kevin Whited at blogHouston made a nice catch yesterday regarding Andrea Georgsson, the Chron editorial writer who got busted making unethical campaign contributions:
Andrea Georgsson, the Houston Chronicle editorial board member who apparently violated newspaper policy by donating to political candidates, has left the newspaper.
Georgsson left the newspaper just after the election, according to this column from Richard Prince:
It’s too bad that the Chronicle didn’t take the opportunity to practice what it preaches about transparency and to inform readers about the scandal. Chronicle execs like to describe the editorial board as leading a community discussion, but more often it seems like the insular editorialists are simply lecturing to the community, without much interest in an actual conversation.
“Insular editorialists” is spot on. The Chron’s editorial board members are unwilling to really engage their customers. An editorial blog, transcripts of ed-board interviews, or even a functioning reader representative would go a long way towards building good relations with the Chron’s rapidly-dwindling customers.
Instead, the editorial board issues a dictum or two from on high and calls it a day.
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Matt;
It’s about time you caught someone at the Houston Chronicle doing something questionable.
Well, the building still looks terrible.
The Commical could have done itself a service and tried to address the issues of the community instead of forcing their socialist ideas on the readership. It is obvious from the drop in readership many people didn’t care for it.
Yeah, you do that, Andrea. Don’t let the doorknob hit you in the a** on the way out.
These people really disgust me.
Do you suppose hers could have been a racist vote? /sarc off/
I hear The One is gonna create a Cabinet level post for her.
Secretary of Information
She’s be tasked with yellowing any and all information coming out of the BHO Whitehouse. His pictures will have to look cool , spelling with be checked, and anything not making The One look good will get the big black marker across it.
More like a Secretary of Propaganda. You have to admit, she’s well suited.
Let’s do what I said and fire them. …..How about a Super Bowl boycott. Which channel has it this year? It would be a great time to show the power of the victims of the ‘journalistic classes’????
Good riddance.
#6 slash: you may be on to something there. I see that The One met with failed senate candidate Rick Noriega, supposedly discussing filling leadership positions in the new adminstration. What’s next? Who knows, but it should be fun to watch.
Wow! Who knew that Journalists/MSM actually had ethics much less had them written down somewhere.
They don’t. She wore out her welcome, so they gave her a glass of whisky and a loaded revolver and told her to go in the study and “do the right thing.”
#10: Journalism/MSM/ethics? Oxymoron. Thrice.