Does The Telegraph Contribute to a Culture of Violence?

Here is our opinion,we would like to hear yours.

We find The Telegraph’s editorial on May 09, 2012, titled “Council late to the youth violence game – as usual” an interesting piece .

The Macon and Bibb county area is notorious for violent crime; the black on black crime is horrendous. Violence and guns have even spread into the Bibb County School system. The frequent reports of fire arms which are found in the schools are shocking.

These stories are carried in The Telegraph. They are discussed on The Telegraphs morning show, “News Talk Central”, aired on WGXA 24 every week day morning from 6 to 9 A.M. The two talking heads on the show are Editorial Page Editor Charles E. Richardson and Visiting Member Kenny Burgamy. They could aptly be described as Looney and Tunes.   

In the following video, Looney (The Telegraph's Visiting Member Kenny Burgamy) will be facing you on the left, which puts him at the right hand of Tunes (The Telegraph's Editorial Page Editor Charles E. Richardson). You know and we are not implying this, but sort of like a right hand man. Then in the video you cannot help but notice how Looney (Visiting Member Kenny Burgamy) charges to the defense of this colleague. In a routine effort by Tunes (Editorial Page Editor of The Telegraph Charles E. Richardson) to explain the art of child rearing to the less informed and for this he is attacked. How ungrateful can people be? The defense starts in a very professional manner, very gentle, then as things progress and he has to resort to painting the adversary as a hypocrite, he gets loud, it makes you wonder, doesn’t it? You can see it here and form your own opinion. 

Both, Looney and Tunes have a coveted spot on the masthead of The Telegraph which is owned by McClatchy Newspapers. George McCanless is President and Publisher.  The other staff member listed on the masthead is Executive Editor Sherrie Marshall. She is in charge of the story shopping to select the material The Telegraph wants to present as news. Harold Goodridge is in charge of manipulating things on the Business Page. This is where we find the unemployment figures. As a rule the figures usually come out and then at a later date they are “revised”. Most of the time they are revised downward and somehow we always miss that. It could not be that somehow, someone forgets to put the revision in the paper; nah The Telegraph would never do that, would they?

Oh well, it is time to get to our point. We constantly see Looney and Tunes lamenting the violence on the streets of Macon and Bibb County.  It looks as if it is almost with tears in their eyes when they talk about the guns and violence in the schools and this is what confuses us. We have to acccept the fact, that maybe we are just simple minded.

Tunes (The Telegraph Editorial Page Editor Charles E. Richardson) does his best. He is all smiles as he takes his message into the Bibb County School System. 

We have to wonder what are the people thinking when they allow this type of thing in their schools. Talking about the people we include both the elected officials and the parents. We know at least some of the parents are aware of what is going on and as we see in these videos have voiced their opinion. 

We know that Tunes (Editorial Page Editor Charles E. Richardson) is prone to lash out at people who disagree with him, especially parents. Somehow the conduct reminds us of a school yard bully. We have numerous instances of that on record. As for elected officials maybe they are listening when Tunes talks about the old adage that you don’t “pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrels”.

Then, as can be seen in the video and the Editorial “In The Pocket” by The Telegraph's President and Publisher George McCanless , the enablers around Tunes (Editorial Page Editor Charles E. Richardson) rush to his defense!

We all must remember The Telegraph’s editorial titled “Can one sleazy story destroy Clinton Candidacy”, January 28^th 1992. They assured the people of middle Georgia (that was back when they truly had a circulation which covered middle Georgia.) that Clinton’s “…problem stems from allegations in a sleazy supermarket tabloid that pays big money for its muck.”

They have not to this day explained the difference between “…a sleazy supermarket tabloid that pays big money for its muck.” and a “sleazy” newspaper which charges “money for its muck.”

McCanless tells us in the editorial, “In The Pocket” that; “To think you could ever have Charles in your pocket, much less for the price of a lousy lunch, is ludicrous to those who truly know him.” 

McCanless goes on to tell us about the “unpaid positions.” Richardson holds, etc. It all begins to sound like that “…sleazy supermarket tabloid”  All we have to go on is McCanless’ word and we cannot put much stock in that after the way he has carried water and covered up things for Attorney General Eric Holder and the United States Justice Department. 

We are talking about Attorney General Eric Holder: the gun running: Fast and Furious, the congressional hearings and the death of the federal agents.  Folks ,we are of the opinion that this is things any honest newspaper would report. What McCanless and The Telegraph is doing is a disgrace to the people of middle Georgia and the Nation!

There is also the fact that since the “lousy lunch” there have been reports that Editorial Page Editor Charles E. Richardson’s wife has gone to work for some of the very people everyone is defending, it gets more and more like “…a sleazy  supermarket tabloid that pays big money for its muck.” We have to point out as far as we can determine there has not been one word about Richardson’s wife and the “70,000 reasons” from President and Publisher George McCanless. (Second paragraph from the bottom)

In the mean time The Telegraph's Editorial Page Editor Charles E. Richardson (Tunes) continues his struggle to educate the people of Bibb county in the art of child rearing as can be see in this video. 

After seeing this we can say: "I can see clearly now". 

Oh well, have a nice day.