Showing posts with label troglodytes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label troglodytes. Show all posts

Monday, August 16, 2010

The moderator is in

In another piece that in my opinion, is written to incite rather than inform, the pjstar has posted salary information about District 150's new hires. They even did a little in depth and researched why one principal was making more than another by posting resume information.

Even though the piece was entitled District 150 Board: Give Lathan hires time; it talked about how “some think it seems suspicious” and left it there - thereby inviting suspicion.

If they really wanted to introduce these new people to Peoria positively, they would have done a little in depth on each individual’s background/accomplishments. Perhaps even go so far as to show photos, so the general public can see the diversity of Dr. Lathan's team and thereby possibly alleviate some suspicion.

Today, I'm not as worried that the troglodytes will show up. The piece about the Lathan hires appears along with a couple of other short pieces. Once again, from the looks of it the pjstar appears to be doing some type of comment moderation now, take a look: