in some respects dealing with j/t is like dealing with the leadership of the aps.
if you want to file a complaint, it is difficult or impossible to find a person and desk the where buck finally stops.
for example, I would like to file a complaint against the aps leader(s) responsible for the board room debacle. but aps won't give up a name. those responsible will never have to defend their position.
I would like to file a complaint against the people in the j/t who have decided not to report on the accountability crisis in the leadership of the aps. but j/t won't give up a name. those responsible will never have to defend their position.
they are powerful people. powerful people don't defend their position. powerful people self-except themselves from accountability for their conduct; as a matter of privilege.
how does one make a newspaper cough up a name? how does one make this phantom stand up on the record and defend the decision to suppress the truth about the administration of the public interests and resources in the aps?
the best thing about being a member of the privileged class is that one can enjoy all of the privileges without defending, explaining, or even acknowledging their membership.
perhaps j/t owns the power that excepts it from accountability. but the power that is being used to except the leaders of the aps from accountability, is not their own. it belongs to the people.
the power and resources that albuquerque voters have entrusted to the leadership of the aps are being used to dodge accountability for betraying that trust.
Friday, February 23, 2007
who is/are the journal and trib?
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True enough. I have suggested before that we let anyone who is accused of a crime or malfeasance on APS time finance their own defense at their own expense. The law complicates matters, but I think is applied with too broad a brush to defend people who are chastised and de-certified in private meetings, while the public is forbidden from knowing the proceeds of the meeting by court order. ALL at the public's expense, to defend a person who committed crimes or acts of serious malfeasance under the color of law, or while the person was SUPPOSED to be acting in the public's best interest.
And here is the funny thing - when is a lawyer, paid for by the district offered to an Educational Assistant or Security Officer, or a Shop Teacher, who commits some supposed crime or heinous rule breaking? NEVER. Only for the elite. HM - sounds like the stratification of resources by levels of pay is a demonstration of the law of variable equality. APS treats all people equal, depending on how much money you make? They treat rich people more equal than poor people? OH - here is one - Since each employee IS aps, then the ones with Modrall on speed dial feel entitled to the FULL RESOURCES of APS. And what lawyer is gonna refuse business just because they don't know who to bill yet(as long as they know someone will pay)? Not sure, but probably not many.
J.H.Lopez
FRUSTRATING.
J. H. Lopez
The idea of holding the HONORARY 4th branch of government accountable to not running a specific article, or at least touching on an issue that seems to a reasonable person to be self-evidently of the public interest. Thorny ethical territory.
They are business people, but not beholden to a public entity. EXCEPT they must have the cooperation of government employees, at least covertly, to access information that is being blocked from things like IPRA requests. So they must have dead-drops or secret, untracable email accounts or some such thing PLUS access to the higher levels PLUS not get ther sources caught by being the only one who coulda given that particular information to the Press...
Complicated. AND make money on top of all that. I can tell you one thing, if you want to see more good investigative journalism, buy the paper when you see Coleen Heild write a story. Buy two and give the other one to buddy who you think needs to be better informed. It is always well documented, interesting, and well thought out when she gets something down in black and white. IF good, hard hitting investigative journalism sells lots of papers, editors will want to run more hard hitting, corruption-busting stories and will put more resources towards it. I THINK.
I could be wrong, I'm just a disabled guy with an opinion.
J.H.Lopez
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