Yesterday Rick Casey wrote a column questioning HISD priorities, since Casey discovered that HISD spokesman Terry Abbott makes a nice salary:
[…]Terry Abbott is very aggressive in his efforts to project a positive image of the school district. The board and the few administrators above him (only seven in the huge district earn more) apparently believe he earns his $149,000 annual salary.
Second, when a school district pays its public relations chief a salary nearly 50 percent higher than that of its best-paid high school principal ($103,000), it’s reasonable for taxpayers to think that image is valued more than education.
Of course, the Chronicle and Jason Spencer make sure that Abbott earns every penny of his salary.
But let’s turn that question around: what is Rick Casey’s salary? Does he make more than Chronicle reporters? And if so, does that mean the Chronicle values opinion more than news?
KEVIN WHITED ADDS: Perhaps Rick Casey would like to share his salary with us. I realize he’s in not in the public sector, but I bring it up because I suspect that the money he makes as Jeff Cohen’s featured metro/state assassin of Chron “bad guys” probably dwarfs that of Washington Post reporter Dan Morgan, whose work Casey ripped off without proper attribution once. Does that mean the Chronicle values attacks on “bad buys” more than quality journalism?
