The hammer falls
It didn't take long.
Randy Horiuchi warned a citizens' committee overseeing a probe into the safety of Kennecott's tailing pond that they would be "looked at under a microscope" by the Tribune.
The fact of the matter: We are the enemy that is going to be harpooned and hammered. If this thing comes out and exonerates Kennecott, The Tribune could very well take it out on us.(Let's all take a second to savor the image of Horiuchi being harpooned.)
Even though the committee has yet to exonerate Kennecott, Randy gets big told-you-so points today. Rebecca Walsh lit into the committee for its boosterism:
Making lemonade, some committee members see an opportunity to use the media glare to burnish the mining town's reputation once and for all. "We should always be thinking, 'We're here to reframe, in a positive and accurate way, people's . . . image of the community,' " [Homebuilder Lex] Watterson said in the same meeting.
Forget toxic sludge. Let's sell some houses!
Simultaneously, the Trib editorial page leveled another blast at the committee:
It's not the Magna Chamber of Commerce, a cheerleading squad or a public relations firm. But it acts like it.But the climax comes in a comment attached to the Trib editorial. Committee member Dave Nicponski, apologizes and vows redirect the commttee's course:
Unfortunately certain members have a tendency to pontificate and lose sight of our primary direction.
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Tribune's Bob Barr Blackout Watch: It's been 64 days since the Libertarian Party nominated Bob Barr as its presidential candidate, but the Salt Lake Tribune has yet to report this news in its print edition.
Yeah!
And I haven't seen a thing on the American Communist Party's candidate, either!
Or the Nazi Green Party.
The Tribune is so biased.
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