The Awards at The Telegraph, Amazing, Simply Amazing

The Telegraph’s article titled “Telegraph reporters are finalists for regional journalism awards” strikes us as funny and somewhat hypocritical. It seems as if the awards are from “The Society of Professional Journalists’ contest…” which they tell us is the “…country’s oldest and largest regional journalism competition.  It is called the “Green Eyeshade Awards.

We find this whole thing mystifying.  McClatchy Newspapers and The Telegraph according to President and Publisher George McCanless and Executive Editor Sherrie Marshall do not have a Journalism “Code of Ethics” but they covet the awards from these organizations.

They say they use The AP Code of Journalistic Ethics, however we can find no evidence they use one at all! 


We think that is evident with the "lousy lunch" or lunches, (we have to wonder if there was only one) and the "70,000 reasons". See the second paragraph from the bottom of the article!

We feel sometimes it is best to take a second look at what Amy Leigh Womack writes: we recall here “Feds on call to ensure fairness”. This was an attempt to assure the citizens would “…be able to vote without interference or discrimination and to have that vote counted without it being stolen because of fraud….”

She goes on to tell us: “The U.S. Attorney’s Office’s efforts are part of a U.S. Justice Department Ballot Access and Voting Integrity initiative established in 2002 to increase the department’s ability to deter election fraud and discrimination while prosecuting offenders, according to a news release.”

The point here is the fact Womack over looked the controversy about the “New Black Panther” party intimidation at a Philadelphia polling place in 2008. You can see the video and come to your own conclusion as to where it was actually intimidation.

Then on August 20, 2009 in the Wall Street Journal we find an article titled “Holder’s Black Panther Stonewall” asking “Why did the Justice Department dismiss such a clear case of voter intimidation?”

When we e-mailed asking about the omission and no mention of the problem at Justice Department, her reply was she was unsure of which problem we were referring to. So it is not like she was unaware of the fact that in cases they deem O.K. Attorney General Eric Holder is willing to permit voter intimidation and The Telegraph will help cover it up.

We did not seem to find any coverage in The Telegraph where the Black Panthers in Florida placed a bounty on the head of Zimmerman in the killing of Travon Martin.  This is a clear violation of Federal law and it seems that this same Justice Department Womack has assured the citizens that Attorney General Erick Holder will “ensure fairness”. 


While we realize that Womack would not have anything to do with that it is indicative of President and Publisher George McCanless and Executive Editor Sherrie Marshall deciding what news the people of middle Georgia will have in their so-called newspaper. Not the news, but just what McCanless and Marshall want them to have. Of course the Executive Page Editor Charles E. Richardson will decide what you read on the opinion page and Harold Goodridge will insure the unemployment figures this Administration wants you to have are available.

We have not followed Kovac but we are told that his work included “…a piece on police outsmarting lawbreakers on interstate 16…” as we remember that piece he was somewhat confused about the area, something about direction, gas stations, etc. almost like he could not read a road map.

Another thing, the article mentions: “…his stories have earned statewide Associated Press and Georgia Press Associations honors.” After carefully following both The Telegraph and the AP over the years and then watch the hatchet job and character assassination they did on Herman Cain we would be very leery of anyone which the AP bestows honors on.   

All of this helps clear things up and we can say I can see clearly now.

Have a nice day.