Monday, June 02, 2008

The very substantial failure of the Albuquerque "media"

For those who have a stakeholder interest in the Albuquerque Public Schools, there are at least three important issues (not yet) on the table;

  1. the standards of conduct and competence of senior public servants in the APS
  2. the procedure for accountability to those standards, and
  3. administrative role modeling of the student standard of conduct.
The issues deserve to be addressed during
APS Stakeholder Awareness Month;
the thirty days before Winston Brooks starts drawing
a thousand tax dollars a day, as the titular head
of the good ol' boys club; aka; APS Modrall.

There is only one legitimate reason that the "media"
would not publish the truth about these issues,
and that is that they are not "newsworthy".

Not newsworthy, means that;
in the many years that I have been trying to get these issues laid out before stakeholders, even as a bona fide school board candidate, there has never been a story published that was less important to stakeholders than these.


Which is categorically absurd.

We are left then we only one other reason, the media are in collusion with those in the leadership of the APS who would have these issues kept from stakeholders.

The names of; Thomas H Lang, Kent Walz,
Michelle Donaldson, Mary Lynn Roper,
Rhonda Aubrey,

and now Mike Burgess, are the names I use
when I address the "media".

No one of them has ever objected; nor offered the name
of another, as the person who made the decision
to keep legitimate issues out of the public discourse;

even through several school board member, mill levy, and
bond issue elections.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
You are a disgrace to your profession.


Or is there some other explanation for
your apparent lack of courage, and or, character?


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

FYI
http://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/guest_columns/0210757opinion06-02-08.htm


http://www.abqjournal.com/north/309470north_news06-02-08.htm