Thursday, September 18, 2008
The Media - vs. (Republican) Small Towns
I don'y know if this was premeditated or not; however, it would NOT surprise me if it were.
Actually, I'm inclined to believe this "small town" Mayor...
Actually, I'm inclined to believe this "small town" Mayor...
At the RomeSentinal.com, Steve Jones reports:
"Mayor Brown, who is on vacation with is wife in Florida to celebrate their anniversary, called the Daily Sentinel late Tuesday to blast the segment. Before he even saw the Tuesday show, he said, he was getting calls and e-mails from people expressing total disappointment with what ABC ‘Good Morning America’ did for our area."
Brown said the negative portrayal of Rome was a calculated attack. 'They had an agenda to come up here and do a negative-type story on upstate economics, on gas prices. The top management, I know their viewpoints,' he said. 'Their mission is to get Barack Obama elected. They focused on all the issues he’s focused on.' First-term Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee for president. Brown is a Republican and has been mayor for five years.
Brown said producers approached the city about a profile as a stop on the train trip across the northeast. He said it was pitched as a profile of a city with a renovated train station. So his chief of staff, Tammy Burkhart, welcomed show crew to town, showing them what Rome had to offer. Instead, he said, they brought an all together different objective."
