(Alt. headline: Has Rebecca Dug ‘Erself a Hole?)
Sam Merten has dug up some interesting information on the close relationship between some city hall staffers and backers of the toll road in the Trinity. Whether it’s a mountain or a molehill, I don’t know yet. IJS.
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[...] I’m not saying that the News didn’t come up with this morning’s front-page story on emails between city staffers and pro-tollway campaigners on its own, as it seems to claim. I’m just saying it’s interesting the story appeared as a banner headline the day after we directed your attention to Sam Merton’s independent reporting on the story over on Dallasblog.com. With that peculiar combination of small-mindedness and grandiosity we’ve come to expect from the News, it somehow neglected to mention Merton’s scoop. [...]
[...] I must have been in a fog on Friday. Here is a post from Sam over at DallasBlog about a close friendship and a few emails that are raising some eyebrows. The same post was mentioned on FrontBurner on Friday and then Wick mentioned a sneaky move by the DMN to run a front page story on Saturday… we will see how this one unfolds. del.icio.us this! [...]