More Proof the ‘News’-Journal Has Jumped the Shark
I can’t vouch for the tipster’s claim that two ex-sportswriters are penning the editorials, but this classic from today’s opinion page speaks for itself:
“Two years ago, Ken Simpler became the highest-ranking Republican in Gov. Jack Markell’s administration when he was elected insurance commissioner.”
Besides the fact that Insurance Commissioner is a separate office and not part of Markell’s Admininstration, and besides the fact that Simpler was elected State Treasurer instead of IC, it’s hard to argue with the facts in that sentence.
Here’s the editorial. Please let me know if/when whoever might be there on a Sunday changes this.
BTW, there’s one more huge journalistic disgrace that the Journal has committed, or more accurately, has failed to cover, in the last two days. I’m giving ’em one more day to address it. If they don’t, you won’t believe what you’ll read here tomorrow. I’m serious.
Duh… Jack Markell is the highest ranking Republican in the Markell administration.
I was waiting for the over/under on how long it would take before someone wrote that.
Should’ve taken the under.
Happy to help out.
They’ve made the correction. Isn’t it normal to highlight that you’ve corrected text?
Still. The local GOP’s problem is that its NCCo component isn’t batshit crazy. The local GOP has been pretty cleanly split for awhile. And while they sort out whether the batshit crazy ones (Sussex) or the more traditional ones ( NCCo — with the money) get to lead the charge, the Democrats are free to do what they’ve always done.
They may have corrected it online, but the error still exists in the print edition. Will there be a correction in tomorrow’s edition?
TNJ doesn’t usually correct itself online, because it still thinks that the real “thing” is the printed paper. We’ll see if they correct tomorrow.
Not sure why we need tipsters to tell us who is the editorial page editor. It was fairly well covered at the time when sports editor Jason Levine took over that role. Today’s piece aside, I’d argue with the suggestion that sports writers/editors are too dumb to have opinions.
levine is a decent sports editor. he’s writing editorials because the paper won’t spend money on a real editorial writer. the news-journal as you might have known it is long gone.
I lost by taking the over on how long it would take them to notice that Frolic Weymouth had died. It only took three days.