THE CHRON’S SENIOR METRO/STATE COLUMNIST (and plagiarist) apparently decided that it was time at least to acknowledge METRO’s Shreddergate scandal.
It’s a typically lazy, lackluster effort that breaks little new ground*, save that we learn METRO’s PR blitz apparently included a meeting with the Chron editorial board,** one of the organization’s biggest cheerleaders over the years (along with some transit “reporters”).
UPDATE: Apparently, The Plagiarist’s column had an embarrassing problem for those reading the print edition (the online version has been corrected): It referred to fired attorney Pauline Higgins as Wiggins repeatedly:
In Rick Casey’s Sunday column, former Metropolitan Transit Authority chief counsel Pauline Higgins’ name was spelled correctly the first time, but misspelled in subsequent references.
Whoops! Copy editing is not a strong suit of America’s worst big-city daily.
*Reader Participation Opportunity 1: Go help out Cory Crow by answering his question, “Can someone tell me the point of this Rick Casey column?”
** Reader Participation Opportunity 2: Imagine the fun naming possibilities of that meeting of the minds! We immediately thought of, “LET’S TRASH THE WRITTEN WORD TOGETHER!” Feel free to add yours in the comments.
