The Telegraph has come out swinging.

As we set down to write this the words of Frédéric Bastiat comes to mind. Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist and politician. He wrote that: 

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it.”

What we are concerned with here is not so much the “legal system” as we are with honor, integrity and morality. We have found that reasonable people could reach the conclusion that The Telegraph is seriously lacking in all three. The free lunches and influence paddling in exchange for employment of family members of The Telegraph is now documented and a matter of public record. 

Also their penchant to fudge and twist things along with their position that they will decide what the people of middle Georgia should get as news.

This from all appearance starts at the top and with the arrival of The Telegraph’s President and Publisher George McCanless has deteriorated to the point that we have to wonder how anyone can trust these people.

The hot topics right now is the Bibb County Board of Education, Dr. Dallemand, the “Macon Miracle”, Consolidation, and the “T-Splost”. The first three have already been productive for The Telegraph’s Editorial Page Editor Charles E. Richardson. This has taken the form of a “lousy lunch” or lousy lunches on the taxpayers’ dime, courtesy of Dr. Dallemand and employment for Richardson’s wife for “over 70,000 reasons”.

The Telegraph is still pushing hard. Please, we are not implying anything here. But the last we heard Charles E. Richardson was shopping for another Porsche, before he left the show, one morning when the subject came up on “News Talk Central” Kenny Burgamy even invited anyone with a Porsche for sale to call in.

In The Telegraph this morning, July 22, 2012 we see an editorial and two different columns on these subjects. If you will notice the editorial at the bottom where we usually find Charles E. Richardson's name, it is now missing and has been replaced with “The Editorial Board”. Not that we are implying that there is a connection, but for the first time that we know of, Richardson has casually mentioned that his wife did indeed work for the Bibb County Board of Education. This was last Friday Morning on “News Talk Central.” There was no assurances she got their on her own.

For the most part the editorial Bibb schools again rocked by serious audit allegations is typical Charles E. Richardson. It is nothing more than a specious argument. Somehow Dr. Dallemand’s previous connections with McGladrey slipped someone’s mind.  

However it is an improvement on Richardson's toilet paper argument used in his phone conversation with Bill Knowles. You can see that here: Is The Telegraph being honest and straight forward? First video. We will leave it up to you to decide who is being ridiculousness. 

Richardson makes another argument why Dr. Dallemand should stay. 

For instance the editorial tells us: “On the veracity question, McGladrey has been in business since the 1920s and has a worldwide footprint. Would it risk its reputation with the handling of this audit?”

That is somewhat like asking: Would The Telegraph which has been in business since 1826 risk its reputation with a “lousy lunch” and by peddling influence for employment? I.E. What The Bibb BOE Isn't Telling You – See the second paragraph from the bottom. Also The 70,000 Reasons Certain Members Of The Media Are Biased

As for the “worldwide footprint” we have to remember the roll other worldwide accounting firms and maybe even McGladrey, have played in the perilous economic situation in the world today. Therefor we can conclude a little hanky panky in Bibb County Georgia would hardly faze them.

Also the editorial Bibb schools again rocked by serious audit allegations  and the two columns, one by Richardson The Sunday surprise and one by Sherrie Marshall Voters must do the work to educate themselves do not even mention Paranoia Invades Bibb BOE Meeting: Local Activist Kicked Out of Open Meeting.

In her column Sherrie Marshall recommends “news coverage”. She tells us “I specify “news coverage” because The Telegraph’s news reports are different from the institutional opinions expressed by the Editorial Board and reflected on the editorial and opinion pages.”

In most cases this may be true but we have our serious doubts when it comes to The Telegraph. For instance the fact that a local activist is kicked out of an open  meeting is news only if The Telegraph decides it is news and things involving consolidation will be news only if The Telegraph decides its news.

Then there is the recent case where the first black Attorney General was the first Attorney General in the history of this Great Country to be cited for contempt of Congress; and the first black President asserts “Executive Privledge” to cover it up. The Telegraph decides it is not news; therefor it will not be covered! There are probably other reasons why The Telegraph has not covered this, i.e. gun running, “Fast and Furious” etc. (Attorney General Reno’s contempt citation was by House Government Reform and Oversight Committee only. The full house did not support the committee's contempt action.)

Yet it falls on the Editorial Page Editor Charles E. Richardson to put this “it’s not news” out over the air waves of middle Georgia and stream it across the www – wide wide world. As you watch this remember these are the people who will decide what you need to know about consolidation. If we believe The Telegraph’s Executive Editor Sherrie Marshall when she tells us: “The Telegraph’s news reports are different from the institutional opinions expressed by the Editorial Board and reflected on the editorial and opinion pages.” Then perhaps we need to look more closely at things. Here we have The Telegraph's "institutional opinion" (editorial page editor) experts telling us what is news and how it will be covered. Here is the video.

Talking about news coverage Marshall tells us “Those pages (“news coverage”) have offered a wide range of viewpoints on consolidation….” Folks this boat will not float because The Telegraph seems to think news is what they decide is news. We have seen two examples already and God knows there are many, many more. 

Have a nice day.