The Chairman of the Northampton township PA, Mr. Barry Moore squared off against the editors of the Bucks County Courier Times for their mistakes reporting about several incidents at last months Board of Supervisors meeting. The Courier had a front page above-the-fold article about a Northampton resident and provocateur, Don George, who has been an irritating, insufferable presence for decades. From campaigning around his neighborhood it’s been confirmed he has few or no friends among his neighbors. The local police have been involved because of his behavior on numerous occasions.
The incidents began when the irritant jumped in front of others, took the microphone and began to insult supervisor Kin Rose. Supervisor Eileen Silver started a protest on her own by singing into her microphone to drown out the irritant. Supervisor Weinstein thought the resident deserved an answer to a legitimate question which provoked supervisor Silver who shouted BULLSH*T twice, jumped out of her chair, made a mocking, bowing gesture towards supervisor Weinstein, stormed out of the meeting and slammed the door behind her. She returned later in the meeting without comment.
The Courier reported the incident on their front page as a rebuff of the citizen to a supposed Right To Know request. That was a mistake. The Courier should have known Georges comments to the board were an attack on supervisor Rose. The Courier even showed a photo of George in his home with numerous documents when the issue had nothing to do with Right to Know and everything to do with his irritating behavior at the February BOS meeting.
Then the Courier Editors wrote an editorial criticizing the innocent supervisors and praising George.
So the chairman of the BOS wrote a letter to the editor explaining the outrageous behavior of George without mentioning his name. The Editor then explained they were criticizing, not the irritant and line jumper but the supervisors.
How much “FAKE NEWS” did the Courier create? They got their report of the meeting wrong. They got the issue wrong. they switched the issue to another issue and when it was explained to them yet again the still got it wrong. See the Letter to the editor HERE.
When the Courier gets so much so wrong so often about one small issue at the township level its easy to extrapolate their mistakes to the county, state and federal levels. Multiply the mistaken Left-Wing editors at one small newspaper by the thousands of newspapers and the diabolical nature of FAKE NEWS is revealaed as the Potemkin Village it really is.
It’s enough to make people distrust newspapers which would make the Couriers effort worthwhile.
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