There's a story about the efforts to build a new concession stand/restrooms/shower at the Thayer High School football field in this week's
Deckard Propaganda Machine.It comes complete with the following illustration.
(Sorry about the size. That's how it was on their online edition.)
Now assuming this is an accurate representation of the plans (I know; I know, we shouldn't assume anything printed in the South Missourian Weekly World News is accurate, but for the moment, just assume that it is), if you look closely, you can see that the bleachers have been drastically reduced in size.
The way I count it, there would be only six rows of seating. Which is room for about 60 people.
You might be able to squeeze in a few more, but certainly not enough to allow seating for, for instance, the hundreds of people who attend the Fourth of July festivities at the field every year.
But who needs a crowd when you've got a press box?
Labels: Deckard Propaganda Machine, South Missourian News
If you pick up a copy of this week's
Deckard Propaganda Machine, take a look at the article on the back page of the front section, written by Jan Thompson (who I assume used to be Jan Sisk Lawrence.)
It's not up on their online edition yet, so you'll have to look at the old-fashioned kind.
The article finally gets around to reporting about the February Thayer city council meeting. You know, the one I reported on
here two weeks ago and in the
Hill N Holler a week and a half ago?
Other than it being late, what's there to object to in this article?
How about the fact that the first two paragraphs are totally untrue?
Jo Ann Bowling, it says, was at the meeting and addressed the council.
Problem is, she was not at the meeting. She had attended the Planning and Zoning meeting the night before and was told she didn't need to come to the City Council Meeting.
Jan Thompson would know that if she attended the meeting, but like Jo Ann Bowling, she did not.
So she either made up Ms. Bowling's presence herself, out of her own imagination, or she relied on unreliable sources who fed her lies.
Unfortunately, this is not the only example of her making things up out of thin air and getting the SMN to print them as fact.
It has happened before.In that previous case of Jan's Imagination running wild, after I brought it to the attention of Areawide Media's Salem office, the SMN did run a small back-page correction.
Apparently it has not taken any steps to prevent it from happening again.
Labels: Deckard Propaganda Machine, falsehoods printed as fact, Jan Sisk Lawrence Thompson, South Missourian News
