(Ed.'s Note: We just couldn't pass this delicious opportunity to poke the Brownsville Herald in the eye. The article above published Tuesday with a headline that asserted that the former Brownsville city manager was seeking the position of city attorney for San Bene.
Fernando del Valle's story actually said in the lead paragraph that it was the former Brownsville city attorney who was seeking the appointment, and not former city manager Charlie Cabler.
Now, we are guilty of making such mistakes, or oversights, as bad or much worse than the one made by the headline writer. But we're pretty much a one-person operation and have no second pair of eyes to correct our mistakes. AIM, the Herald's parent corporation has entire news desks and editors at its disposal to prevent them.
This might just be a result of the neglect with which the corporation has treated Brownsville, the biggest city in the valley. In fact, there are no longer any presses here and the daily is actually printed in McAllen. Anyway, who but those pesky nitpicking bloggers would notice? Do the AIM editors know our city? Do they even live here? Judging by the headline, they're not up on the city officials to make a glaring mistake as the one above.)
11 comments:
Sossi Cabler the new man in town.
The Brownsville Herald either misses the story or gets it wrong. The best writers and photojournalists have abandoned ship leaving a group of less-than-talented writers who have nowhere else to go. The paper has become the laughingstock of any journalist worth their weight. Give up, Herald! The bloggers have won!
Brownsville: the Biggest and shittiest city in the valley!
Mark Sossi is a DICK! He will screw San Benito just like he screwed Brownsville.
The incompetence of The Herald is the main reason that I rely on Juan Montoya and Jerry McHale for information about our community and its leaders. Whether we like them or not, these guys have deep roots in Brownsville and both of them once worked for The Herald. I may not agree with them a lot of times, but I appreciate their blogs and I keep going back for more.
Anybody with a 2nd grade education laughs at the Herald. The "reporters" are a bunch of no-talent "can't make it anywhere else" types, especially the one with his tiny ponytail and Dick Tracy hat, supported by his family/girlfriend who brings home the bacon.
PENDEJOS
How stupid does Charlie Cabler think the DA is, Cabler got caught with his fingers in the till, along with the fire chief and the only way out was to resign (good advice from his lawyer) he thought that he was safe, until the DA overnight become Captain Big Balls, and grew a pair. First it was the Scumbag Black Mamba Rene Oliveria, next it will be the Jackass Jason Hilts and his partner Gilbert Salinas, then Mark Sossi and then complacent Charles Cabler. Louis Saenz knows that the only way that he will not join Armando Villalobos, is to bring all the scumbags down. Charles Cabler is going know where but Jail, along with the Black Mamba Rene Oliveria, as he will self destruct.
Once upon a time, the Brownsville Herald employed desk editors and copy editors and designers who all reviewed headlines.
Then Freedom Communications went bankrupt thanks to half the family borrowing a boatload of money to buy out the other half. Swamped by the recession, the company was divided up and auctioned off. The new owners, a bunch of vultures with no Valley ties, have been sucking the life out of the Monitor, the Star and the Herald ever since.
They eliminated the copy editors. Then the desk editors. Then the designers. Every year they lay off more people to appease the predatory hedge funds that "invested." Like parasites, they'll eventually kill the hosts and move on.
Sad.
I just hope Cabler doesn't have a few drinks in San Benny, and runs over with his vehicle a woman picking up her decorations after a wedding from a reception hall like he did at the Ringgold Park Pavilion, and looked the other way. I wonder why nothing ever happened out of that? Lucked out again Charlie.
NO wonder why you are running away
You know why God created snakes before lawyers & city managers? He needed the practice!
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