The [Macon] Telegraph, oh how they whine!

We find it rather amusing that the Telegraph is using the USPS (United States Postal Service) as the basic for their question of the day. They have posted as their question: "What measures would you use to make the USPS solvent?" This is for their daily program "News Talk Central" which is broadcast locally in the middle  Georgia area.


Perhaps they could talk to The Telegraph’s President and Publisher George McCanless. 


After all it was McCanless who back on May 15, 2011 solved this problem for The Telegraph. It seems as if during the week of May 15th The Telegraph had run a story ‘…about how the U.S. Postal Service lost $2 billion in the first four months of 2011. 


This is just amazing The Telegraph does not even blink an eye as the federal government goes into debt about three billion dollars every day.


It seems as if McCanless finds it “Ironic because just the week before I had the unenviable task of announcing to Telegraph subscribers in our state area… that come June we would be stopping home delivery of the paper Mondays through Saturdays.” 


McCanless then follows with a litany of excuses comparing The Telegraph and their problems with those of the U.S. Post Office. His solution was to cut home delivery from 24 counties to what he called 7 “core counties”.


You can see that comparison here.

Of course they do not seem to realize that the almighty power of the pen without any regard for the truth, honor and ethics may have something to do with their decline in circulation. The people of middle Georgia will support an honorable newspaper.


Also they seem to think that it is O.K.  for the federal government to borrow 41 cents for every dollar they spend so we have to wonder why this wouldn't be satisfactory for The Telegraph.

This is also amusing because he does not appear to realize the postal service operates under a different set of rules. Those Washington politicians The Telegraph is so use to covering for regulate the postal service. 


Back last year when we questioned McCanless as to why The Telegraph did not cover these politicians and their questionable activities, he replied that the Democrats have not “…been convicted of anything --- yet.” 


They sure as hell did not apply this standard to Herman Cain. In presidential candidate Herman Cain’s case if they could find a story with accusations and innuendoes, which did not address the life style of the gold diggers, they ran it. 


Every time they do something like this we think of their approach to the Clinton sexual accusations. Five days after the story broke they ran an editorial titled “Can one sleazy story destroy Clinton Candidacy?” In the very first sentence their instruction to the people of middle Georgia was: “Let’s be very careful and very specific in judging Gov. Bill Clinton, a leading Democratic presidential candidate in trouble with his past.”


They then went on to inform us that “His problem stems from allegations in a sleazy supermarket tabloid that pays big money for its muck.”


Well, we can not see much difference “…in a sleazy supermarket tabloid that pays big money for its muck.” And a sleazy newspaper that charges “…big money for its muck.”


Have a nice day.