July 5, 2008
For as much as the Newspaper Tree tries to portray themselves as superior to, or even different than the El Paso Times, it fails to achieve that goal. Take for example, the June 19, 2008, article “Eddie, Eddie, Pay Attention.” David Crowder, by his own admission, at the end of the article, acknowledges being prompted by Sito Negron to write what turned out to be an insulting article and a personal attack on City Representative Eddie Holguin.
Some readers just went along for the ride adding their own accolades on the great and incisive piece of journalism achieved ex Times Twins. If those readers consider that article a great piece of journalism, then I consider the source. The article was an attack on Representatives Holguin’s intelligence, honesty, and personal character. Gracias a Dios it was written as an opinion. Notwithstanding whether the article is an opinion or a new story it qualifies as vile and yellow. Hence my contention of the lack of difference between the El Paso Times and the Newspaper Tree.
For what is the Newspaper Tree, but a mere branch of the El Paso Times? After all, Sito Negron and David Crowder remain symbiotically attached to the Times. They were born of the El Paso Times. They were at one time the Times.
Have someone read the article to you as you close your eyes. Consider its modus operandi and you will have a hard time believing it was not nurtured with the same fertilizer liberally applied to the opinion garden of the El Paso Times.
The Newspaper Tree has chosen sides in the issues that face the polarized City Council and the storm water fees controversy. It criticizes Representative Holguin for not having mastery of all the facts and figures regarding storm water fees, impact fees and still chastises him for asking questions over and over while other representatives roll up their eyes. He asks the questions until he understands or gives up.
Yet it lauds Beto O’Rourke and Susie Byrd for “raising the discussion level to a serious policy issue” (Parale Ay Henry Kissinger) and ridicules Holguin’s skepticism of the facts and figures advanced by the Public Service Board. Well if the Ex Times Twins were so smart, why didn’t the Newspaper Tree listen to Representative Holguin when he was originally against City Council giving the taxing authority to the PSB?
If the Ex Times Twins are so smart, why haven't they done their “brilliant investigative work on all the hidden taxes and agendas of the PSB and City Council for all its readers to understand? Maybe you don’t want to?
The apple that fell from the El Paso Times did not roll to far from the tree. The baby tree soon grew to be the Newspaper Tree. The worms that ate the apples of the El Paso Times hardly had to travel far to get fat on the apples of the new tree. Sito, David look in the mirror and you will find that the more things change, the more they remain the same.