KRQE raked over the coals by blogger

Blogger Joe Monahan, link, suggests that ties between KRQE heavy hitters and principles in the racino scandal, Darren White for one, is affecting KRQE's coverage.

My own history with KRQE corroborates Monahan's impression.

Their close ties with principles, in this case their own lawyer APS School Board President Marty Esquivel, and with former school board heavy hitter Paula Maes, President and CEO of the NM Broadcasters Association, would explain KRQE's relentless refusal to investigate and report upon credible allegations and evidence of a standards and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.

It is hard to imagine anything more disturbing or ultimately more damaging than the press being in cahoots with the folks they're supposed to be covering.

Another example of course is the Journal, also in cahoots with Esquivel and the leadership of the APS, and who also has made a point of not investigating or reporting upon the ethics and accountability scandal.

KOAT and KOB TV are no better - the ties that bind them to the leadership of the APS and the consequent bias in their coverage are the same.

Where, if they can no longer depend on the local press, will voters get the information they need to vote in school board elections and in bond and mill levy elections over hundreds of millions of dollars?

Shame on them all.




photo Mark Bralley