KTRK-13 recently ran this story about a Chronicle street vendor who was partly disabled when a car ran over her foot as she was helping distribute the Hearst daily.
According to the report, two Lakewood church bigwigs ran across the disabled woman (after driving right by her for several months — apparently the Lord was a little slow to alert them to this woman in need, but not TOO slow thankfully!), decided to try to help her out, and ultimately got her hooked up with a surgeon who agreed to help repair her injured foot. As KTRK-13 reports, she is doing much better now.
We can only imagine the outrage of, say, the Chronicle‘s Editorial LiveJournalists or the Plagiarist or the Teen Diarist, if some company that’s considered a Chron “bad guy” had treated an employee independent contractor so shabbily. But we haven’t seen anything about it in the Hearst daily — only a KTRK-13 video.
The Chronicle really needs to end this dangerous practice of selling newspapers in the streets.
PREVIOUSLY: Chronicle vendor killed in unsafe work environment, Chron sues for constitutional right to sell papers in streets, Newspaper vendor killed in west Houston, Chron: Bad news story is mining company’s fault.
