[weegee]

There is no reason to expect accuracy or veracity from an information source that turned the Tet Offensive from a Communist disaster to a Communist victory, but the truth should be worth the extra effort.

Check into the book on LBJ that was made from his tapes. He secured a letter of agreement from the Houston Comical that they would not criticize his administration in exchange for allowing a bank merger to go through.

The paper is a waste of trees.

[an amused spectator]

Here, let's flesh that charge out a little, and ping it again:

http://archives.cjr.org/year/98/3/books-beschloss.asp

He knew, too, how to pull on the pursestrings. Pressed by financial backer George Brown, chairman of Brown & Root, to approve a merger of two Houston banks sought by John Jones, president of the Houston Chronicle, Johnson proposes a quid pro quo: "I want John Jones to write me a letter . . . saying, 'Mr. President . . . I just want you to know that we're making arrangements for special coverage in Washington for the Chronicle . . . and that so far as I'm personally concerned and the paper's concerned, it's going to support your administration as long as you're there. Sincerely, your friend, John Jones.'" When Johnson gets the letter he wants, he phones Jones. "From here on out," he tells him, "we're partners." "Thank you," Jones replies. "Sure are." (Five days later, the merger went through.)

The "revived" public Media Schadenfreude and and Media Shenanigans lists

[demkicker]

Check into the book on LBJ that was made from his tapes. He secured a letter of agreement from the Houston Comical that they would not criticize his administration in exchange for allowing a bank merger to go through.

If this is true, why in the hell am I just now hearing it? Please cite which book and who gave this information. Dan Patrick of KSEV will be most interested in getting it. He and many of us are on a rampage about the Houston Chronicle. Either we'll bring them to their knees with the cancellation of subscriptions, or they will be discredited by their relentless biased reporting through other news outlets.

[demkicker]

Check into the book on LBJ that was made from his tapes. He secured a letter of agreement from the Houston Comical that they would not criticize his administration in exchange for allowing a bank merger to go through.

If this is true, why in the hell am I just now hearing it? Please cite which book and who gave this information. Dan Patrick of KSEV will be most interested in getting it. He and many of us are on a rampage about the Houston Chronicle. Either we'll bring them to their knees with the cancellation of subscriptions, or they will be discredited by their relentless biased reporting through other news outlets.