| It has been two weeks since I revealed that the antigovernment-faction leader in Montana had been using a state government Web site to profit personally in his business, a violation of federal law that the Labor Department dealt with by writing him numerous cease-and-desist letters throughout the last nine months, and then, several weeks ago, shutting down his profiteering scheme.
Evidently, Left in the West has become, in the eyes of the Montana press, a major news outlet! The press decided that since Koopman's transgressions were already reported on this website, they need not be covered at all in any of the state's newspapers, television or radio.
Strangely, they did cover, a week earlier, Koopman's media event in which he declared that he was going to search state-wide for right-wing candidates to oppose "big government republicans."
Perhaps there is some sort of understanding that the Bozeman Chronicle only writes positive things about Roger Koopman? (Even if they're only positive to its own editors and those with lead bunkers in the Flathead.) And if so, does mailing it in from Koopdog-and-pony shows really pass as journalism?
If the Bozeman Chronicle can't write the story because they fear Koopman will call and accuse them of ordering pizzas to his house, can't some less timid source write about it?
Someone in a different pizza delivery market? |
