The poor Chron.com metro/state editors have been having a time of it lately.
The Chron.com edition of a weekend story by Bradley Olson on the mayoral candidates’ timid approach to crime repeated grafs, which nobody caught*.
The Chron.com edition of today’s column by Carolyn Feibel omitted a graf (the lede!). We’ll just paste that in below as an image, in case the Chron.com editors are too busy to fix it.
For that matter, we’ll also post a correction, since Chron editors don’t always get around to them any more: The Texas Watchdog story referenced in the column ran on Friday, not Thursday (as Feibel wrote).
The rest of the column is here.
Recall that METRO spokeswoman Raequel Roberts lashed out over Feibel’s previous criticism of the inadequate notice of meetings, ranting that Chron reporters never attend the meetings in question, and METRO would basically continue to decide what is best in terms of notification. METRO board chair David Wolff offered Feibel yet another lame excuse for the ongoing lack of transparency regarding meetings:
Wolff contends that any reticence has developed defensively, after years of being under fierce attack by anti-rail political foes, notably former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Sugar Land Republican.
Translation: Screw transparency for the taxpayers AND for legislators responsible for our funding — especially the ones who look at what we are doing closely.
Is there a more arrogant public organization in Texas?
BLOGVERSATION: Texas Watchdog.
* Frequently when the little un-blog points out such errors, they are quickly corrected. But not this time. [UPDATE (08/11/09): All three errors have now been corrected. Glad the un-blog could help!]
