Hack journalism by the Toledo Blade - February 2015

Last fall, a Woodville police officer ruthlessly shot a dog that caused no harm.

So the Blade is now attacking the town by writing multiple stories about Woodville being a speed trap, and in each activist story, the Blade mentions the dog being shot.

Downtown Woodville, Ohio has been well-known as a speed trap for many years. Twenty years ago, I got a speeding ticket in downtown Woodville, late at night on a Sunday night while returning home from a Cleveland Browns playoff game loss.

my Feb 15, 2015 tt comment:

From Burris's pathetic rant:

... a local policeman shot a dog named Moses.

From yesterday's Blade op-ed titled Ticket trap

... the officer shot the dog ...

JRB loves dogs. That's great. But this crusade against Woodville is demented journalism at best.

More from yesterday's op-ed:

Woodville officials are using speeding tickets primarily to raise revenue ...

As others have mentioned, that's what Toledo is doing with its gotcha traffic enforcement cameras. It has never been about safety with the cameras. The cameras provide a source of revenue that's budgeted by the city. Toledo doesn't want safe drivers. The city would have a budget hole to fill if everyone started driving safely in the camera areas.

The Village of Woodville has abused northwest Ohio motorists for far too long ...

So has Toledo with its cameras and especially with its f*cked up roads.

If the Blade truly wanted to help, it should focus all its energies on a Toledo issue. One single issue for 2015.

Fix the f*cking roads

You will do better in Toledo if the f*cking roads are fixed.

More from yesterday's op-ed:

If a boycott of the town’s businesses is needed finally to get the attention of its public officials, so be it.

It's definitely loony bin time for the Blade editorial board. A boycott? Who participates in the boycott campaign? Elmore residents?

What's lost on Burris and the other Blade writers who are engaged in this dog-shit journalism is how everyone else is laughing in mocking fashion at the Blade.

#media #moronism