Following the lead of the Chronicle, which buried the news in its Saturday edition, KTRK-13 devoted a news segment tonight to HPD’s looming manpower shortage.
This isn’t exactly a new issue, as we’ve been pounding on it about as long as we’ve been in existence, and other people have been discussing it somewhat longer, but good for KTRK for giving it some coverage in a week when Mayor White and his council are concentrating on banning smoking.
The coverage sort of blows away a recent contention of one self-styled media watcher that local media outlets bury stories broken by their competition all the time. If anything, they all fall over themselves to report the same news. Unfortunately, they’re all a little late to this party, but we welcome them just the same.
