Monday, March 24, 2008

Covering the news for Paula Maes.

Paula Maes is the President of the APS School Board.
She has some skeletons in her closest.

She wants very much for them to stay out of the news.

For example; she wants the idea of
an immediate impartial audit of the leadership of the APS
to stay out of the news, and away from stakeholders.

The idea of auditing out, the corruption and incompetence
in the leadership of the APS is an idea that would spread
like wildfire among APS stakeholders.

Maes alone,
can't keep the ethics and accountability scandal
in the APS leadership from seeing the light of day.

So who helps Maes, to keep the truth from stakeholders?

As powerful as she is, she couldn't keep the Journal from
telling the truth against their will.

You can't just email the Journal, KRQE, KOAT, and KOB TV
and ask them for the name of the person who's decision it is
that, the truth not be told.

They won't answer.

There is no one at the Journal, nor at KRQE, nor at KOB,
nor at KOAT who will step up and say;

"I take responsibility for not assigning an investigative
reporter to the issue of the ethics and accountability
crisis in the leadership of the APS."

Two possibilities exist; the first that I am, in fact,
just a crazy old shop teacher, disgruntled former employee,
and none of my allegations warrant even an investigation.

The other possibility is that my allegations warrant attention
and attention is being withheld deliberately and dishonestly.

If the person who is individually responsible for the abject
betrayal of the public interests, and of their reader/viewers'
interests, were not ashamed of what they have done,

why won't they defend themselves?

I don't cc every post to them; but they cannot say that
they have not been informed. If they are unaware of
this blog, it is by their own deliberate choice.

Paula Maes,
President and CEO of the NM Broadcasters Association.


Monica Armenta
"... has very strong ties to this community,
having worked in TV news for more than 20 years."

Mary Lynn Roper, KOAT
Secretary of NM Broadcasters Association.

"As the leader of KOAT 7, she’s serious about the
station’s commitment to the community.
"We need to understand the community.
We need to always be aware of the power we have
to do a world of good."
Michelle Donaldson, News Director, KRQE

Still unknown. News Director, KOB TV
If you can believe it, I can't find the actual identity of
KOB TV's news director anywhere on their website.

If Mary Lynn Roper is not covering Paula Maes'
enormous ass (metaphorically speaking),
there would be some good and ethical
alternative explanation for Roper's failure to investigate
and report upon the truth.

and she would share that reason with stakeholders.

Why would she be "slandered" on a daily basis
if the truth exonerated her?

And Thomas J Lang, and Michelle Donaldson,
and whomever at KOB TV and KKOB radio.

Stonewalling is like pleading the fifth;
they may think they're getting away with something,

but for all the protection that stonewalls offer,
they are transparent,
and everyone knows what they did anyway.

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