For the last several months we have been observing the main stream media coverage of the Mayoral race. Until recently State Representative and Mayoral candidate Gail Riecken’s campaign has been lackluster at best. However it looks like a competitive Mayoral race has begun.
On Monday Mrs. Riecken held a press conference on the Civic Center steps. This event was covered by the CCO, Courier and Press and one radio station. Where in the heck was the self proclaimed Tri-State News Leader Channel 25, Channel 14 and Channel 44? This was an important fact filled speech presented by State Representative and Mayoral candidate Gail Riecken. Her speech alone should have encouraged any credible news source to be motivated to go directly to the Mayor and ask him to refute Mrs. Riecken’s statements that he has mismanaged city funds. We would like to congratulate Courier and Press writer John Martin for not only writing an accurate account of Mrs Riecken’s speech, but asking her pointed questions about her speech. However the Courier and Press could do a better job in allowing Mrs. Riecken to make rebuttals on articles they write about the Mayor.
To our surprise, that evening the Dan Rather of local TV News, Brad Byrd had his friend and past employee of Channel 25 Mayor Winnecke on twice. in one evening. One segment had the Mayor talking about his new community blight program that was borrowed from another community and the other segment allowed the Mayor to defended his embattled Chief of Police Billy Bolin. However, Channel 25 was kind enough to make a short statement concering comments Mrs. Riecken’s made ay her news conference, Of course her comments were taken from the press release she sent them earlier in the day.
What is so amazing is that Brad Byrd didn’t invite State Representative and Mayoral Candidate Gail Riecken on his show for any rebuttals to Mayor Winnecke’s in depth interviews. Talking about media bias, it looks like it’s alive and well on Channel 25 located in Henderson Kentucky!
We now have a newly revamped Evansville TV station. TV Channel 44 has announced that they are not only going to focus on local community happenings but will also will be reporting the local news as it happens. We watched Channel 44 News last night. Were extremely impressed by what we saw. Channel 44 has many talented young professionals that seems eager to report the local news without bias. We shall give Channel 44 a pass for missing Mrs. Riecken’s press conference since they are fresh on the local news coverage scene. Since Channel 25 claims that the Courier and Press is their “MEDIA PARTNER” maybe one day Channel 44 will announce that the City County Observer is theirs!
We recommend you visit Channel 44 site for fresh, objective and non biased news! We also like the way Channel 14 handles the local news and are worth watching. Oh, and please continue to read your community “Watchdog” the City County Observer!
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Nobody who is realistic expects anything but the worst of the local “media outlets,” and they are living down to the expectations in a stunning manner.
The CP ran an editorial about how nice the new Moped Law is the other day. ☛They managed to do it without ever mentioned Gail Riecken’s name☚. They did say that it was first ‘brought to the legislature’s attention’ by Suzanne Crouch and when she took a job with the vaunted Mike Pence administration ‘other lawmakers picked up the issue’.
The bill was co-authored by Gail Riecken.
If 44 is to remain unbiased and objective, which is yet to be determined, why would they team with another news(?) source and not stay independent?
And is it the CCO’s stance that when a sitting mayor, president, representative, sheriff, governor, or whatever office holder, is interviewed about an event or duty that falls within their elected responsibility, anyone running against them should be afforded rebuttal time?
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