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« How TABOR Will Boost Revenue in Spring Hill | Main | Don't Diss Blogs 2 » March 3, 2004TaBOR CoverageBlake Wylie of NashvilleFiles.com emails to say he must have been wrong about there being a Tennessean reporter at the Taxpayers Bill of Rights event, as today's issue of the paper shows no evidence the paper had a reporter there. I searched the paper's online edition and found no coverage of yesterday's event. That is simply amazing. A proposed constitutional amendment has been filed, and a crowd of 200 people, including many members of the Tennessee General Assembly, showed up for a "town hall meeting" on the proposed amendment, which has been endorsed by the very influential National Federation of Independent Business. The legislation goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week. It all happens within one mile of the newspaper's HQ, and they don't cover it. And they knew about it. The Nashville City Paper also ignored the event. The Knoxville News-Sentinel printed the AP story. However, the Memphis Commercial Appeal seems to understand that this is potentially a very big story. Richard Locker from the paper's Nashville bureau covered the event, though the C-A makes you go through registration process before you read their online content. WSMV Channel 4 put the AP story on its website and aired this report by reporter Dagny Stuart. Anchor Dan Miller introduced the report by saying the state constitution was "under attack" by backers of the Taxpayers Bill of Rights. Stuart herself didn't seem to understand the Taxpayers Bill of Rights - she said the debate was over whether lawmakers or judges should have the final say on taxes. The Taxpayers Bill of Rights actually would shift control over tax increase decisions to citizens via the ballot box. She also called the audience at the event "protestors," though they were not protesting yesterday but participating in the public policy process. I doubt Dan Miller and WSMV ever described the proposed lottery amendment as an "attack" on the constitution. Memo to WSMV: Keep your anchors' and reporters' bias out of your reports, please. The constitution is not "under attack" by "activists" and "protestors." There is a constitutional process for amending it, and the backers of the Taxpayers Bill of Rights are following it. Posted in Taxpayers Bill of Rights
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Bill, Its no surprise that WSMV slanted the meeting as an attack by protestors. Wsmv is by far the most liberal news channel in the middle Tennessee area. I stopped watching that channel completely several years ago. Posted by: Jim at March 3, 2004 07:41 AMGee what a shock....TABOR gets introduced to Tennessee and the local media manages to either a.) ignore it, or b.) distort it. And WSMV reports it as a PROTEST?...... (shaking head)....no wonder most Tennesseans are misninformed about this issue. We certainly can't trust the media to accurately report it.. Posted by: Tman at March 3, 2004 10:20 AMPost a comment
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