The Angry Citizen ©

It has become obvious that the Macon Telegraph is not going to issue any correction of Charles Richardson’s column of October 4 2005. This column has several factual errors that are used to excuse New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin while attempting to shift the blame to FEMA Director Michael Brown.

Mr. Richardson repeats an disproven allegation that Joe Albaugh and Mike Brown were “college chums”.

I provided the Telegraph with a link to a New York Times correction of this error when it was used by their columnists Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, and Frank Rich.

Mr Richardson also asks a rhetorical question — “Has he planned the agencies response to other catastrophes”.

FEMA’S bio of Mr. Brown reports that he led the response to 164 presidentially declared disasters including the Colombia shuttle diaster in 2003 and the Florida Hurricanes in 2004. While the actual amount of “planning” he did can be debated it should be obvious that Mr. Brown was not the rank neophyte that Richardson seems to indicate.

The complete text of my requests for correction can be found here:

http://www.angrycitizen.net/angrycitizen/irresponsible-journalisim/

This request was sent to the Editors at letters@macontel.com

I also sent it to Ms. Sharrie Marshall at smarshall@macontel.com

So far I have seen no retraction and have received no response.

I guess Thomas Jefferson was right in his evaluation of the veracity of newspapers.

http://www.angrycitizen.net/angrycitizen/jeffersonian-commentary/

Responsible Journalism

The October 4th column by Charles Richardson in the Macon Telegraph is blatant example of irresponsible journalism. It contains several factual errors. I have documented these errors and will post them here if the Telegraph fails to publish a retraction of this hatchet job. I have provided them with the evidence of the errors with links to credible sources.

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/columnists/charles_e_richardson/

The recent crime spree in south Georgia brings a disturbing question to the forefront.

MIKE LEWIS, GBI SPOKESPERSON:

“I think they were targeted largely because they are Hispanic, largely because they are known to carry cash, and I don’t think, at this time, it would be premature to say they were attacked and killed merely because they were Hispanic.”

What determines a “hate crime”?

Let’s look at some sources:
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